balance of power

Metternich's formula for maintaining borders and avoiding major European war after Napoleon.

European policy logic where other states unite to take down whichever power becomes dominant.

He says America's China strategy is not to destroy China but to make China obey through economic strangulation, Japanese balancing, and U.S. sales of resources, weapons, and financing to both sides.

He says Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia become U.S.-enabled counterweights to Chinese supremacy, while all sides remain dependent on U.S. energy, food, weapons, and financing.

Jiang says the U.S. plan is to create conflict among China and Japan, Iran/Israel/GCC, and Europe/Russia so America can control resources through key choke points.

Jiang predicts most of the world will eventually side with Russia to balance the United States because America is too much of a bully, while China must work with both powers in the short term.

Jiang says America and Israel are not simply aligned: America wants balance of power in the Middle East, while Israel wants to become the dominant Middle East hegemon.

Jiang says postwar Americans realized they had been duped and that the Cold War followed from recognizing Russia, not Germany, as the real enemy.

British foreign policy seeks balance of power in Europe, so the German Empire proclaimed in 1871 becomes a threat Britain must challenge.

Britain responded to Russia's growth through divide-and-conquer balancing, encouraging Ottomans and French to constrain Russia and later contesting Russia in Central Asia.