China stole Davos as the speech that terrified the West exposed a funeral applauded by its own elites

Davos 2026 was not just another World Economic Forum.
It was a delirious kaleidoscope of decay, a shadow theater where the disintegration of Western hegemony played out in real time, behind bombastic speeches, hollow concepts, and panicked smiles.
To endure this spectacle, one would metaphorically need to put on headphones and let the Band of Gypsys shatter the sound barrier, drowning out a chain of events that, if viewed calmly, should provoke terror, writes the well known geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar while commenting on the proceedings of Davos.
Big Tech meets Big Finance at the same table, Palantir and BlackRock together.
A “Master Plan” for Gaza that would make even the most cynical colonialist blush.
And in the background, the incoherent outbursts of a neo Caligula speaking as if he rules a world that is his private property.

The West applauds its own funeral

Within this climate, Western mainstream media proclaimed as “visionary” the speech of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a man of the system, former governor of the Bank of England, a genuine offspring of the financial oligarchy.
His speech was, of course, accompanied by Thucydides: “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
Supposedly, Carney spoke about the “rupture” of the so called “rules based international order.”
In reality, this order did not suffer a rupture, it collapsed.
And it did so long ago.
The narrative of “rupture” is nothing more than a euphemism, an attempt to avoid the word that terrifies: defeat.
The “rules based order” was never anything other than the global dominance of the Anglo American financial elite after the Second World War.
Now that this dominance is receding, its managers are trying to repackage it with new vocabulary, while the structures of power remain the same.

Billionaires demand social justice

The absurdity reached its peak with the letter of 400 “patriotic” millionaires and billionaires to the leaders of Davos, demanding more “social justice,” Escobar notes in his characteristic torrential style.
Translation: they are afraid.
They are in a state of paranoid panic in the face of the collapse of the neoliberal model that made them richer than any aristocracy in history.
They are not asking for justice.
They are asking for salvation.

Change without sovereignty, the ultimate dead end

Carney’s proposal for addressing the “rupture” has nothing to do with national sovereignty or a genuine multipolar condition.
He speaks of “middle powers,” of “coalitions of values,” of “flexible geometries.”
This is a controlled substitute for a multipolar world, completely harmless to the City of London and Wall Street.
Everything must change so that everything remains the same.
And of course, the real levers of power, the financial centers, remain entirely untouched.

Russia and China, the end of the Western deception

This narrative, however well crafted, collapses in the face of one reality: the strategic partnership between Russia and China and the gradual strengthening of the BRICS.
There is no “managed” multipolarity there.
There is a slow, persistent, and irreversible shift of power.
The real message of Carney’s speech was not what was said, but what was implied: Canada and the European “middle powers” are no longer sitting at the table.
They are on the menu.

Europe as a geopolitical banana republic

The image of the European Union at Davos was that of a banana republic without bananas.
Completely dependent militarily on NATO, energetically on third parties, technologically on the United States, and indebted up to its neck, with total debt of 17 trillion dollars.
And yet, there were voices, such as that of the president of the European Investment Bank, who dared to speak of the EU as a “superpower.”
History laughs bitterly at such claims.

Greenland, Gaza, and techno feudalism

At Davos, two of the most terrifying land grab plans of our time were unveiled: Greenland and Gaza.
Greenland was presented as a “piece of ice” to be exploited, military bases, rare earths, digital states.
Elon Musk and other techno feudal lords envision a world where states are replaced by corporate entities, governed by CEOs who present themselves as philosopher kings.
Gaza, however, was the ultimate shock: a plan that turns genocide into a real estate project.
Mass extermination, rubble, camps of “approved” Palestinians, and beachfront prime assets for investors and settlers.
All under the aegis of a private company.
And Europe.
Silent.
Complicit.

And then China spoke

Amid this chaos, there was a moment that changed everything.
The speech of Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng.
Without hysteria.
Without bombastic threats.
He simply stated that China has set as its top priority the strengthening of domestic demand and intends to become the global market.
This is already reflected in the 15th Five Year Plan, to be approved in March in Beijing.
In other words:
China is preparing to replace the United States as the world’s largest consumer.
This is not merely an economic development.
It is a tectonic shift of power.
Whatever the “barbarians” of the old world may scheme, whatever monsters decadence may generate, the fact remains: China has already moved into the next phase.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the real rupture, Escobar emphasizes, and concludes with Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying and the new struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

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