Commodity Culture, Released on 4/30/25

Simon Hunt doesn’t mince words when discussing the Trump administration’s attempt to bully the world into trade deals that favor the U.S., and he believes attempts to isolate China will end in a disaster that could lead to the end of the American empire. Simon points out that tensions between the two countries are very likely to lead to an all-out hot war, one that the U.S. is ill-equipped to win.

00:00 Introduction
01:05 US-China Trade War
08:59 Could the Trade War Become a Hot War?
17:34 Are We Headed to World War 3?
23:19 Is China in Economic Trouble?
29:52 Gold’s Role as a Safe Haven

Simon Hunt founded Simon Hunt Strategic Services in 1996. The focus of the company’s work is to provide strategic advice including geopolitical and financial developments as well as structural and tactical changes within China in order to produce a balance outlook for the supply of and demand for copper. Increasingly the work involves understanding the shifts taking place in the balance of global power including how BRICS+ will change the dynamics of the world and how these changes will impact the copper industry. Simon is also the author of the ‘Frontline China Report Service marketed by the TIS GROUP. He is also on the Board of Directors the Great Eastern Gold Company in Australia and Copperman in Chile. Follow Simon at his website https://www.simon-hunt.com/

  china, simon hunt, trade war