As forecast first by Washington Forum and World Pensions® experts, the second presidency of Donald J. Trump (“Trump.2”) is witnessing an unprecedented acceleration of the US China race across commercial and industrial sectors and geographies/markets (“the world as a playground”), with Europe, MENA and Latin America increasingly caught in the crossfire.

Tellingly, the management of Google just announced it would soon “start using Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico” in its flagship Google Maps app and in all official communication. This came as a shock to CNN, The New York Times … etc. and the European Commission — who had, until today, always considered Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai as “reliably liberal business leaders”.

Like many others in Europe and the United States, they have failed to understand the meaning of the new era we live in. The Age of Geoeconomics as defined by the likes of Edward Luttwak and Nicolas Firzli posits 1) the alignment of central government, high tech and “big business” on a combined plane, and, perhaps more importantly, the centrality of “geographic realism” as a base for economic and financial power — including the reassertion of spheres of influence and forceful national cultural symbolism-s used as “territorial markers” in the behavioral inter-actionist sense (Herbert G. Blumer).

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