In Episode 351 of the CounterVortex podcast [16], Bill Weinberg critiques online and media reactions to the Jensen Huang scandal [17]—which have been polarized between framing about a threat to US national security [18] and Chinamaxxing propaganda [19] about the benign nature of the Chinese state. As the US, China and Russia race to place nuclear reactors on the Moon [20], the leaders all three powers increasingly embrace fascist ideology [21] (yes [22], really [23]), and publicly schmooze [24] with the same fascist tech oligarchs [25]. Trump's Pax Silica [26] AI development initiative threatens peasant and indigenous communities [27] in the Philippines—as do Chinese corporate designs [28] on the same mineral resources. And the looming Trump-Putin-Xi summit [29] in Shenzhen portends a global carve-up of the planet in a fascist world order [30]. With protests against data centers now spreading worldwide [31]—a significant glimmer of hope [32]—it is practically inevitable [33] that they will come to China. International solidarity across influence spheres—and repudiation of AI-boosting campism [34]—holds the only hope of resisting the planet-wide consolidation of techno-fascism.
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