How Venezuela and Iran are part of Trump’s war against China – ft. Michael Roberts

After almost a month from the kidnapping of President Maduro in Venezuela and in the midst of what looks more and more like a military escalation against Iran, how should we read those geopolitical and economical developments? What are the continuities and differences between Trump’s foreign policy and the one of the previous democratic administration? While it is undeniable that many aspects have changed under Trump, it is nevertheless true that when looking for an overarching grand strategy, we can only see that “Pivot to Asia” started by Obama in 2011, which is an euphemism to say confrontation with China and its economic and political allies. We spoke about this with Michael Roberts, marxist economist from the UK, author of many books and curator of the blog thenextrecession.wordpress.com.