How are the US and China weaponizing the global economy?
We discuss how economic chokepoints — from the dominance of the US dollar to China’s grip on rare earth minerals — are reshaping global power, trade, and the risks of economic warfare.
Date: Nov 10, 2025
In this episode of Macro Bytes, Hosts Paul and Luke sit down with Edward Fishman, international relations scholar, former diplomat who is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and author of Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War, to find out how nations are weaponizing financial and industrial bottlenecks.1
Some highlights:
- Economic power without military force
- The rise in workarounds and the new risks they pose
- A more fragmented, uncertain world
- Why concerns may be relevant beyond the policymakers
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Endnotes
1 Eddie Fishman. Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/eddie-fishman.
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