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Geopolitics

Code, Sovereignty, and the New Cold War: The Manus Case and the Global South's Precarious Future

China's unprecedented reversal of Meta's acquisition of the AI startup Manus signals a new phase in the US-China digital cold war, moving the battle from chips and minerals to the ownership of intelligence itself. This brazen assertion of sovereignty over 'code with a passport' is a necessary corrective to Western hypocrisy, but it also dangerously traps the Global South between competing imperialist tech ecosystems, threatening a new form of digital colonization.

Geopolitics

The Meta-Manus Silence: A Deafening Testament to Western Hypocrisy in US-China Relations

The complex global supply chain entanglement between Meta and Manus is unlikely to be a high-priority agenda item in the upcoming strategic dialogue between the U.S. and China. This staggering oversight reveals the profound hypocrisy of Western powers, who preach 'de-risking' while actively avoiding the tough, collaborative negotiations required to untangle their own deeply embedded, neo-colonial economic dependencies for fear of destabilizing their own markets.