Global Politics Review (2026 Edition)

Global Politics Review (2026 Edition) is a series of ebooks in Deus Ex: Human Revolution concering the current political state of the world. These can be found spread throughout the game.

Chapter 3: The State of the American Dis-Union
After the 2015 oil crash, the United States found itself an embattled nation from within and without. Struggling against the rising economic power of China, internal pressures have grown - dissent against Draconian Federal regulations, widening rich-poor diversions, extremism and widespread discontent are weakening a nation that was once a great superpower.

Radical choices by the government (suspension of posse comitatus, increased powers for FEMA and the NSA, the opening of oil reserves) have served to bring order, but it may be too late to regain stability. Many states - Texas, Utah, California - are considering secession, while cities like Seattle, Dallas and Chicago have become fortress-states in an attempt to maintain normalcy in a dangerous environment.

America struggles to hold itself together against the building pressure of balkanization, but it is a fragmenting nation on a downward spiral.

Chapter 7: Facing the Dragon
China casts a long shadow; since the 2000s, the Chinese Bloc has seen a steady climb toward superpower status, supplanting the USA as the world's economic engine and most sophisticated military force.

Marked growth in many areas of industry have made the People's Republic a major player in many fields, notably in the emerging technology of human augmentation. Without the regulations imposed on human trials by other nations, the PRC have been fast-tracking their augmentation research; many fear that China's actions may grant them a monopoly and thus strengthen their position still further.

However, despite technological advances, China's attitudes toward human rights and the environment have not progressed, and rumors of atrocities against both people and the planet are rife; but confirmation of these statements is difficult to obtain, given the PRC's iron grip on their nation's media.