Shifting Power From States To Information Companies
October 16, 2025
By Prof. Umberto Sulpasso
The 21st century is witnessing a change in the concept of historical war in which military diplomacy may not have taken full cognizance, and of which economic diplomacy has not even begun to be perceived: the third world war is underway between the USA and China, and this is the War of Knowledge.
Accustomed for centuries to unchanged logical structures from Caesar to Napoleon, from Hitler to De Gaulle, Churchill, Eisenhower, from McNamara to Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh for whom wars consisted of men, bombs, courage and physical weapons, the present diplomats at the moment lose sight of the fact that there may be other wars made not by soldiers but by software developers, not by phyisical weapons but by intellectual weapons, not by blunt objects, but by acts of culture and intelligence. These are fundamental changes, as we will see, for developing the GDKP Market Model, with the effort to have it applied first by India
Traditional Economic Diplomacies: Russia, Iran, Cuba
Usually, when we talk about alternative diplomacies, we mean the economic ones implemented by the West, which are seen by traditional diplomacy as supplementary supports. Current examples: Russia, Iran, and Cuba.
Russia: Blocks on bank deposits and reserves especially in the SWIFT system. Restrictions on exports of technology and industrial goods. Bans on direct investment and loans to large companies. Freezing of assets of persons, entities and officials. Restrictions on the export of oil, gas and other energy resources.
Iran: Blockades on Iranian funds and bank reserves, especially those linked to the National Bank of Iran. Restrictions on international money transfers. Prohibitions on investment and trade in certain goods and services. And unfortunately the blocking of pharmaceutical products, sanctions that are completely unacceptable because it especially affects children who cannot be treated.
Cuba: An instrument of revenge, because the blockade on the export of its main goods, embargo policies and multilateral restrictions can only be revenge given that after the Bay of Pigs, military failure should be considered definitive.
Doomsday Clock: It Is Now 89 Seconds To Midnight
For the war of knowledge in progress, the term of reference of the new war diplomacy is the new vision of the wealth of nations, GDKP (Gross Domestic KNWLEDGE Product) which must replace the GDP, the obsolete Gross Domestic Product of the ancient society of the industrial revolution and was first adopted by India. (Praise to MoSPI Minister and Secretary India who first decided to make it happen) And here we await the work of Ms Manoranjana Gupta who has perfectly understood its importance for that phenomenal country that is India and is able to express the steps needed for full implementation.
Put the role of GDKP in the war of K as a basic refernce, it seems like an intellectual game of self-satisfaction of person who, having first invented the model that over the years have been promoted in India, try to self-affirm its importance. But this is not the case for the following reasons:
1. The very powerful super weapons – nuclear and biological – are in fact unusable. The world lives in a strange situation in which military superiority is turned against those who have it because in a nuclear war the USA and Russia would shave each other’s goals. Their function is no longer warlike but dissuasive.
2 Biological weapons can have a similar diffusive effect between rich and poor. And the rich, as we know, prefer wars to made by the poor.
3 Climate and environmental destruction will soon be irreversible, whatever the conservatives opinion of those who are very rich who risk living on a desertified planet to be richer may think. Intelligence is often seen as optional in those who govern.
4. But there is a phenomenon, even the most decisive for adpting as reference of K war the GDKP, is a phenomenon slowly taking hold: the real subjects of power are moving from states to information societies.
They are the ones who have transformed Knowledge into a commodity. They are the ones who control its production and circulation.
Allison Stanger: Shifting Power From States To Information Companies
A brilliant article by Allison Stanger, (How tech giants are recolonizing power, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) intelligent in structure and enjoyble in writing, presents this phenomenon by making a very clear parallel with the “East India Company” which, having had the exclusive right to trade from Elizabeth I, progressively expanded the boundaries of its intervention to the definition and collection of taxes, made operational with an army of its own so violent and so despotic that in fact it transferred the imperial powers from the crown to society, making its CEO the real governor of India.
Financial software
And here it is worth quoting verbatim the clever article “A similar pattern can be seen today with national governments and Big Tech—only this time, centuries of drift have been compressed into months. (the italics are mine) Where the East India Company deployed trading posts and private armies, today’s technology firms and specifically AI development companies use data pipelines, data centers, and algorithmic systems. The medium has changed; the mechanics of private power assuming public functions remain the same.”
The Market GDKP Model Will Replace GDP At UN
But if this is the case, the new economic diplomacy needs a new reference of wealth, the GDKP with the clarification that it is not a question of obtaining data relating to knowledge from the GDP statistics, but of seeing the GDKP Market Model in its three operational diplomatic references that are summarized in the 3 M’s: Market, Mass, Mind.
M, Market: With the internet, knowledge has become a commodity. With Internet, the selective class barriers that had always managed the production and circulation of knowledge to small circumscribed entities have collapsed.
The first M is summarized by the author of the model in the slogan “Knowledge produced by all, sold to all, circulating amng all”. (600 Knowledge items are identified in his model, but depending on the country there could be 60 or 6000).
M, Mass: The second M concerns the population access to the Internet, and it is in direct relation to the integration of technological tools (digital economy) which has produced tools, more and more powerful, simpler to use and less and less expensive. And it is summarized in the multiplier of factor V speed of circulation of knowledge of the GDKP Market model.
M, and finally Mind: The third M, which is perhaps the most fascinating part of the model and which is too complex to synthesize in this article.
New Diplomacy Based On GDKP Tariff War: Part Of The East-West Confrontation
It is on the basis of GDKP model that US vs China diplomacy must readjust their diplomacy. Jeffrey Sachs, a lucid economist who has the great merit of wanting us to live in a more positive world as possible, clearly states that China is not aggressive, and wanting to invent China as an enemy is a very serious mistake. Jeffrey Sachs fully deserves the highest attention.
In previous articles I have tried to clarify that the economic disorder (or new economic order) wanted by Trump has many more positive aspects that will not immediately appear. His new order formally expresses itself in a war between tariffs, but this is a manifestation of a more important historical conflict that could be “East against West”, the real century confrontation.
There are two aspects that are worth mentioning in this USA vs China of knowledge war diplomacy
China currently has the largest availabilityof Scandium and Yttrium, Tantalum (for electronic components), Indium (in screen and solar panel technologies) and Cobalt (for batteries).
These materials are essential for: Smartphones and electronic devices, semiconductor chips, military and aerospace technology,navigation and satellite systems, renewable energy electric and hybrid vehicles, high-precision software and devices medical equipment. That is to say, for the whole new industry of knowledge as Knowedge is defined in GDKP Model.
In the GDKK Market model, they are key component basis for “commodity knowledge.”
East Vs West Different Campus Models For E-Phone Giants
But there is one aspect worth mentioning in this East-West comparison: the comparisons between the campuses of the two giants cell.phone.
Huawei’s new Chinese campus reproduces the architectural structures of 12 European cities, such as Bruges, Freiburg, Oxford, Bologna, Verona, Krumlov, Heidelberg, Grenada, the Windermere area, the Burgundy region, Luxembourg. In all, there are 108 buildings, on a 1:1 scale divided into 12 blocks that follow one another like stations on an imaginary railway, complete with an electric train inspired by the famous Swiss Bernina, and offer 25 thousand researchers pure references to the great European beauty, to bring it back to life without offending it with fake reproductions. They are reproduced 1:1. Even the area dedicated to Paris prefers the Cité internationale Universitarie as a starting point, sparing itself yet another Eiffel Tower.
The choice of favorite symbols is more than iconic and erudite, it is the city of Bologna, chosen as a representation of the Renaissance (which would actually be Florence), but also home to the most ancient university of western world, and like the very cultured Oxford.
The Apple campus in Copertino, on the other hand, is a wonderful futuristic circular structure equipped with highest technological innovations of the best level all in glass, and with an almost autonomous electric power supply with solar panels. This is the answer of the genious of Steve Jobs to those who are against energy renewable policy.
The East-West war of knowledge will also be seen in these architectonic manifestations
India’s Fabulous K Factor
1. The third world war is therefore underway, USA – China, and it is the war of knowledge
2. The pillar of reference of this war is the new vision of national wealth that from old obsole GDP (Industrial society) becomes GDKP (new knowledge-information society)
3. The GDKP model concerns the radical change of knowledge
4. This war requires the birth of a new diplomacy based on the new role of knowledge measured by the GDKP
5. In the opinion of the writer, India – which was the first country to decide to calculate the GDKP – by developing the implications of the GDKP Market can easily become the third planetary player of the K factor. That is because the knwledge structure of the country is simply fabulous. It would be a pity not to dig it properly.
This is the political and economic motivation that prompted the author of the GDKP Model to point for its first application to India, this fantastic country where, as I once said to a friend of mine, I personally have the impression that even stones think.
Prof. Umberto Sulpasso
Prof. Umberto Sulpasso has taught in many European and American universities. He is the author of the GDKP the Gross Domestic Knowledge Product, the first quantitative model in the world of Wealth of Nations in terms of knowledge produced, purchased and circulated. The Indian Government has officially appointed Prof. Sulpasso as Director of GDKP INDIA. Among his recent publications there is, " Know Global, The Most Important Globalization"; "Darwinomics, The Economics Of Human Race Survival"; "New Enlightenment In Economics In The 21st Century"; and "Knowledge the new measure of Wealth of Nations." Prof. Sulpasso has launched “Knowledge the infrastructural information which will create the New Silk Road with Africa and Asia countries” in a recent international conference.
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