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Geopolitics in the new world will be constantly in flux, making fixed enemy/alliance categories unreliable.
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Alliances
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prediction
In East Asia, Jiang says an initial coalition of Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Russia might form to contain China, but could later shift to contain Japan as Japan rises.
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The new kid creates rebellion because other students and even the bully’s allies begin to see alternative alliances once someone refuses the cafeteria rules.
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Optimal strategy changes with circumstance, especially when alliances, multiple actors, external constraints, weapons, and weather alter the game.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, people did not use modern categories of race, culture, ethnicity, borders, and states; Viking identity was fluid and alliance-based.
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Jiang argues that Philip's smart diplomacy was as important as military strength because it bought time, exploited Greek rivalries, built alliances, and deceived enemies.
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Thebes also treated Philip well as a strategy of alliance-building: weaker nations could be bound by indoctrinating their future leaders, but Philip had other intentions.
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Jiang argues Iran needs a second alliance layer with Russia and China if it is to win a war against the United States and Israel.
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"不好意思 想 問 一下 根 本 就是 預 期 中國 它 是 B est strategy For him 但是 想 問 一下 如果 你可以 設..."
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"...'re presenting a grand theory of the world And they build alliances Okay So you know I mean Ch ina just doesn 't care..."
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"...Meaning you cannot easily divide nation -states into enemies anymore. Their alliances will constantly shift over time. And the nation -state system will also..."
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"So let's combine against Japan. Okay? It's a dynamic situation. But basically, what you have to understand is that everything that you've been taught..."
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"...And different people are talking to him and trying to form alliances with him. But what he does, and it's really interesting, is that..."
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"Okay? And then one day, the bully's friend comes over and says, You know what? You're a whip. And the new kid finally says,..."
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"between Russia and America but you know we don't see Central America attacking Iran at any point okay that's one thing we'll see second..."
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"...be so clear it's really different countries will will choose different alliances but these will be shifting alliances over time so China will try..."
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"South Korea will ultimately rebel as well. So, look, at the end of the day, all of Trump's policies, his aggression, it's going to..."
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"Yeah, so, you know, all these lesser powers, um, like India, they're trying to play both sides, right? They're trying to position themselves, um,..."
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"uh and end result uh as a greek and an athenian a very old union i can absolutely confirm what you just said in..."
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"well he says that you know the united states doesn't need europe europe is uh you know a problematic place i i think that..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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