The New Year’s Eve Schiller Institute dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche placed 2025’s tumultuous, volatile global developments within the larger context of the needed transition to a new security and development architecture beyond 500 years of colonialism. While U.S. policy under the Trump Administration sees many strategic contradictions, Zepp-LaRouche remarked that the significant meeting in Anchorage, Alaska between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and November’s National Security Strategy (NSS) has shifted America away from the Biden Administration’s policy for global dominance in a U.S.-led unipolar world order, a policy which nearly brought the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia in the summer and fall of 2024.
During the hour-long program, a clear contrast emerged between what China’s Xinhua News Agency identified as the most important world events of 2025—largely focused on development—and the perspective of the Anglo-American Council on Foreign Relations, which instead emphasized wars and the devastation produced by a zero-sum British geopolitical outlook. The spirit of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Year’s address to the nation—reflecting on China’s transformation over the past 40 years from a poor country into the world’s most powerful physical economy—demonstrates that extending such a model can uplift formerly colonized nations and help bring about a new global security and development architecture based on sovereignty and technological progress.
Finally, Zepp-LaRouche commented about how the United States could use the occasion of its 250th birthday to recommit to its original mission. By rejecting its post-1945 “special relationship” with imperial Great Britain, America can return to the principles that made it the first successful anti-colonial revolution in history, and a nation opposed, in the words of President John Quincy Adams, author of the Monroe Doctrine, to “going abroad to seek monsters to destroy.” She suggested that Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 From the New World be listened to by all those who would embody the universal spirit that 1776 was intended to embody.
