Edwards: The New, New World Order

By state Rep. Jess Edwards, NH Journal

The United States lost its preeminent role in September 2025 as the China-centric “new world order” replaced the U.S.-dominated international “rules-based order,” according to an American professor.

The September date was the marker set by Professor John Short writing in The Conversation as China celebrated its 80th anniversary of “its victory over Japan.”

Six months later, the United States has toppled nearly all the pillars upon which China was building its global reach. While North Korea remains in China’s hands, it has lost the ability to project power into the Atlantic with the termination of control of the Panama Canal and through reinvigorated commercial and military alliances with Greenland. Denmark and NATO now share an appreciation of Greenland’s strategic placement in controlling the oil- and mineral-rich Arctic Circle.

With two of the edges set in the Atlantic, it is noteworthy that the U.S. relationship with Argentina has not been stronger in decades. Javier Milei is a strong philosophical ally of the United States, representing a passion for free-market economics that shames most of the fettered economists living inside the elite towers of American academia. Chile has been led since 2022 by Gabriel Boric Font. Argentina’s gross national product is almost twice that of Chile’s. The southern tip of South America seems stable.

With the Atlantic Ocean secured from overt Chinese actions, the United States has effectively ended the support relationship between China and Venezuela. The U.S. now controls oil distribution. The situation has cut off Cuba from the most vital economic support it needs: oil. With its reserves depleted and its appetite remaining, it will increasingly be open to U.S. overtures for political and economic reforms.

With the blessings of liberty available to Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, and Greenland, the world is likely to see a rebirth in the passions and joys of freedom. The Chinese model will look old and decayed by comparison, wholly unattractive to an aware set of new leaders.

This brings us to Iran. Iran has been led by the Islamic version of Adolf Hitler, with a passion for wiping Israel off the map, along with the Jews who have called it home for thousands of years. As the world’s largest exporter of terrorism, Iran’s opponents can breathe a sigh of relief and focus instead on commercial development and quality of life, freed from its maniacal control of its people and its wanton abuse of women’s rights.

China needs Iran’s oil. President Donald Trump will soon be able to negotiate a mutually beneficial peace with China with his energy-dominance strategy solidly in place.

Trump is in the process of delivering the most consequential and beneficial reordering of the world order in history. While global bureaucrats fully embraced the prospects of a “rules-based order,” the people left unrepresented by the global swamp are on the precipice of embracing a freedom-first future. Trump is delivering the blessings of liberty to the world’s posterity.

State Rep. Jess Edwards (R-Auburn) serves as Chair of a Finance subcommittee and serves on the Joint Fiscal Committee and on Health and Human Services Oversight. He’s a 33-year Army veteran with a combat tour in Afghanistan. He wrote this for NHJournal.com.

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