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The U.S. restriction and seizure of Iranian-linked shipping, treated by Jiang as an act of strategic sea control.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the Americans can have aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and blockade the Iranians. Okay? This is important because a lot of people believe..."
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He says American control of global choke points and blockade capacity makes the color-revolution and economic-strangulation playbooks usable against countries that oppose America, especially China.
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Jiang argues that U.S. seizure of Iranian-linked shipping would normally be called piracy, but America treats its own control of the sea lanes as rule-setting authority.
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The speaker says the United States is shifting from guaranteeing global trade through reserve-currency power to controlling sea lanes, blockading rivals, and seizing or denying resources.
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The speaker claims Venezuela illustrates U.S. blockade strategy because after removing the president, America has a blockade over Venezuela and the Venezuelan government has become cooperative and obedient.
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Jiang says what is called a ceasefire is being used as a strategic pause: he terms current phase 'recalibration' and predicts ongoing pressure on Iran through control of the Hormuz economy.
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He frames a blockade touching Chinese-flagged or China-bound shipping as effectively an act of war on China because it crosses a nuclear-power threshold.
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Jiang says using Hormuz-like pressure on Malacca would raise tremendous costs for China but could provoke Chinese retaliation.
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Jiang says Trump may use Middle East naval pressure to force Europe and East Asia into deeper dependence on North American energy as the U.S. faces debt pressure.
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"...the Americans can have aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and blockade the Iranians. Okay? This is important because a lot of people believe..."
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"you have unemployment, and it's possible that you have protests happening in China because of the collapse of the economy. Okay? So, that is..."
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"...has failed. And round two is basically trying to impose a blockade on the Iranian economy, basically trying to straggle the economy. So we're..."
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"in Tehran. But what's going to happen, as you point out, is that eventually we'll get sick of all this drama and switch our..."
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"...about permanent naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz, a permanent blockade? Will we actually see boots on the ground? It doesn't seem Trump..."
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"...though there's a ceasefire in effect, the Americans have imposed a blockade."
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"There's a blockade on Iran. And the Americans have escalated the situation by boarding and basically taking over an Iranian ship returning from China,..."
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"Okay. So you understand. So the fact that Iran has closed off certain moves and threatened to attack ships with drones and ballistic missiles,..."
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"Okay. So does that make sense? It is wrong for the United States to do this. the world to be pirates and to see..."
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"...they've got some credibility there with the Houthis. Number two, the blockade, the U.S. blockade, is now going to be crossing thresholds with China...."
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"But if you step back and you think about the larger strategy at work here, I think that Gordon is right in that China..."
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"that it probably will work professor zhang i mean there's a lot of chatter about what china's view of all this has been and..."
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