Jiang says Japan will probably reform itself successfully again in a coming crisis, whereas he has not seen comparable resilience in China.
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Key Notes
Many Asian, Australian, European, GCC, and Pacific states are described as American vassals unable to act independently despite the illusion of sovereignty.
Jiang predicts energy lockdowns across Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and South Korea, including remote work and gas rationing.
Jiang argues the Middle East energy crisis impacts all of Asia, but the decisive variable is which societies can innovate and adapt to a long-term cheap-energy break.
Jiang says Iranian retaliation through the Strait of Hormuz is already inflicting severe damage on the global economy by spiking oil prices and threatening Asian importers.
Jiang defines Iran's strategy as a war of attrition that pressures Gulf monarchies and Asian economies into forcing Trump toward a settlement.
He says closing the Strait of Hormuz would disrupt roughly a third of world oil transport and devastate several Asian economies.
Jiang says the Tibetan Plateau's control over fresh-water sources creates a persistent geopolitical pressure among Asian states and helps keep India-China rivalry alive.
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"they were completely destroyed by the Americans, they came together and re -changed their political and industrial system before they had something called the..."
"...to project force overseas. Russia, America, maybe some European countries. Australia, Asia, and most European countries are just vassal states. They are not capable..."
"And you can tell because of their actions, in that you're absolutely right in that, okay, if you're Australia and you don't have any..."
"...hate to break the news, but this is COVID 2.0. Southeast Asia, India, Japan, South Korea, all these places are going to have to..."
"...There's no jet fuel. So this is impacting all of Southeast Asia. So the question isn't who will be impacted because everyone's impacted. The..."
"-term change to the global economy. And I think that China will actually be the least resilient and the least ready to apply testing..."
"It is a pretext. And they tried different, many different excuses. And then finally, Rubio said this. Rubio basically said, look, we had to..."
"Japan relies on 75 % of its oil from the Strait of Hormuz. So in about seven to eight months, Prime Minister Takeuchi has..."
"It hasn't been done well. But this is a war of attrition, though, to a large extent. That is both sides seeking, well, not..."
"Because Iran believes that the GCC nations, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, can apply pressure on Trump to end this war. It's really..."
"One of the major reasons is that Iran has access to a lot of oil. Geopolitically, it's very important. It is the center of..."
"do you think about that Professor yeah no I I think that it'd be wonderful if India and China were to um come together..."
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