"dominance of computational power (semiconductors), resource power (rare earths, energy) and connectivity power (shipping and maritime chokepoints)" [semiconductors]
This quote directly names the three structural domains—compute, resources, and logistics chokepoints—that the signal claims are the new terrain of great-power positional competition, replacing direct confrontation.
Reasoning from this article
The article frames US moves across Venezuela, Panama, Greenland, and Iran not as isolated events but as a coherent strategy to control the nodes through which global economic systems operate. This generalizes beyond any single administration: whichever power controls these nodes gains structural leverage without needing to win kinetic battles. China's rare earths retaliation forcing a US trade ceasefire illustrates the same logic in reverse, confirming that positional node control is now the primary currency of great-power competition.