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Jiang’s model of America as a transparent, winnable, property-protecting competition for material acquisition rather than inherited civilization.
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Jiang’s model of America as a transparent, winnable, property-protecting competition for material acquisition rather than inherited civilization.
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He frames the Civil War as a clash between the Northern free-labor game and the Southern slave-labor system, with slavery corrupting the game's openness, fairness, and clarity.
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Jiang says capitalism's internal problem is that if the game is played long enough, one person or a few people control all the money.
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Jiang says America's public rationale for bringing China into the game was middle-class growth and democratization, but he calls that a fraud masking the desire to make China subservient.
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The American game attracts immigrants and accelerates innovation because everyone can play by striving to make money.
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Jiang says contemporary Chinese students are also playing the American game: education, American degrees, wealth, and consumption.
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"important for us to understand is it is expansionist okay so what happened is that in its history america faced certain challenges to this..."
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"And so they fought a civil war to decide who will triumph in the end. And of course, the North won, because the North..."
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"So we'll discuss this throughout the semester, okay? The relationship between China and the United States. So remember that the United States wants China..."
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"right it's a stubbornness inflexibility it also limits immigration okay does that make sense okay this is the nature of civilization throughout most of..."
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"that's the idea of the US Constitution what's the game the game is this first of all we need to have game masters game..."
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"yours forever it's yours it's yours but it's also your children's okay you understand this is a game that America has constructed if you..."
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"to school because we need to get an education go to America get a degree we can become rich when we become rich we..."
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"...and the Israelis anymore. Alright? So the Israeli game plan the American game plan is to fracture Iran into and they'll fight over water..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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