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There is a new and very important term that has begun to occupy a clear position in the political and economic analyses of major international events. This term comes as a new expansion of the general concept after a phase of relying exclusively on the idea of geopolitics. Perhaps the most notable figure who has pointed to the components of this term without naming it is the famous American writer and investor Ray Dalio, who indicated that the state of financial markets does not depend solely on recurring insurance cycles but also on internal policies and general geopolitical conditions. He linked the crisis of U.S. public debt to crises in foreign political relations, considering that the United States always has the obsession that its interests and national security are in the midst of a circle of danger and threat, which leads it to spend relentlessly on militarization, weapons, and security, ultimately raising public debt levels to enormous and record highs.

In the past, the focus was on the financial system for any economic analysis, but now there are more than one financial institution and consulting firm that rely on analyzing the political situation and its impact on the economic situation. This is confirmed by American Daniel Tanibum, who works as an executive consultant for the global consulting firm Oliver Wyman in New York, stating that he now spends most of his time advising his clients on analyzing major political events and their impact on the financial situation of individuals and institutions among his clients. This has prompted some of the largest multinational companies to establish special committees to assess the geopolitical economic impact on their business landscape worldwide.

Some countries use this term to proactively enhance their position on the international stage. This is exactly what was expressed by Englishman Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (the British central bank), when he said that geopolitics is, in fact, "the use of economic tools to support, promote, and defend national security."

What is currently happening in the very hot and intense economic war between the United States and China, primarily, confirms this matter. The United States is using economic tools such as tariffs, sanctions, bans, credit ratings, blacklists, and taxes as influential and effective means to curb its adversaries, unlike what happened with its previous adversary, the Soviet Union, where the battle against it was purely and strictly military-security, and thus the tools that could be used against it were fewer and less impactful.

Political events have never influenced the economy as they do at this stage, and it is no longer possible to "limit" the repercussions of any of them and their impact on the savings of peoples or their spending habits.

Today, there is a serious and massive academic project led by distinguished university professors at Stanford and Columbia Universities in the United States to study the geopolitical economic impact in a precise and in-depth manner, stating that China today has control over its industrial system because it dominates its supply chains. Meanwhile, the United States controls the financial circle (the primary currency being the dollar, banks, financing options, etc.), and the hottest battle remains over high digital technology, an open battle that will determine the fate of the economic world. It is geopolitics, ladies and gentlemen.