The New Dark Age

Washington arrived in Beijing carrying sanctions, aircraft carriers, and the exhausted myths of neoliberal supremacy, while Silicon Valley and Wall Street arrived carrying spreadsheets, supply-chain dependencies, and demands for access to the very industrial system the empire now seeks to contain. Beneath the summit’s choreography unfolded a deeper crisis of hyper-imperial decline, where deindustrialization, financialization, technological warfare, and collapsing Western legitimacy have forced the United States into negotiated rivalry with China. The struggle over chips, AI, Taiwan, Iran, chokepoints, and Eurasian integration revealed that the New Cold War is a battle over who will control the infrastructure of the twenty-first century. Yet the summit also exposed the reopening of history itself, where imperial decline creates dangers of war and technofascism, but also openings for anti-colonial struggle, proletarian internationalism, and revolutionary transformation.

By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 16, 2026

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