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In response to a student question, Jiang says systemic collapse is obvious because postwar America reversed from productive lender to consumer debtor after outsourcing work to Europe, Japan, and China.
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American decline
In response to a student question, Jiang says systemic collapse is obvious because postwar America reversed from productive lender to consumer debtor after outsourcing work to Europe, Japan, and China.
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America is described as a house of cards, Ponzi scheme, corrupt, unequal, lazy, and in decline, which makes controlled decline management the central political project.
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He says the world is changing because America is no longer the sole global hegemon and rising powers such as China and Russia now want to retain their talent and human capital.
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"So my first question is, you mentioned that the Donald Trump or like Putin, they think that the world, like the whole system will..."
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"Okay. That's a really good question. Okay? So, both Putin and Trump know that the world will collapse. And the question is, how do..."
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"Okay? And then what happened was that America started to shift its manufacturing to China. And so China is like, let's, let me do..."
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"But I introduce you to the idea. But basically, the idea is that America is a house of cards. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's..."
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"But now, the world is changing. America is not becoming, is no longer the global hegemon. Russia, China, these countries are rising as well...."
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