Jiang says China's South China Sea posture is strategically conservative because an American first-island-chain blockade could choke the food and oil imports that sustain the Chinese economy.
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Chinese economy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in Canada and Australia. It shows you how really screwed the Chinese economy is right now. Because Chinese aren't stupid. They're business people, right?..."
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"...lose access to overseas markets, which is the lifeblood of the Chinese economy. So China imports a third of its food from overseas. China..."
"...in Canada and Australia. It shows you how really screwed the Chinese economy is right now. Because Chinese aren't stupid. They're business people, right?..."
"...appreciate how, um, devastating these sanctions were on China, on the Chinese economy. So let me, let me give you an example where in..."
"...to spend money. You have this, um, complete collapse in the Chinese economy. Um, and, and, and so China really suffered for these past..."
"...surface it was because America wanted greater access to, um, the Chinese economy. Okay. And that's, that's, that's the main reason, but there's a..."
"...but then this would of course cause the collapse of the Chinese economy right so the Chinese government would refuse to open the financial..."
"...reason is because Chinese aren't that wealthy. So even though the Chinese economy has boomed these past 30, 40 years, the Chinese individual has..."
"...strike a deal. deal where they can financialize the china the chinese economy basically use uh the chinese account as collateral to engage in..."
"...is destroy China. And, unfortunately, right now, a lot of the Chinese economy depends on exports, meaning trade. If you can't export, your economy..."
"...want to humiliate China. It wants to control China because the Chinese economy is still very strong and powerful. And America wants to make..."
"...years, and that's going to be a huge problem for the Chinese economy. And the third problem is, okay, if you are a Chinese..."
"...economy. But if this war continues for too long, then the Chinese economy may suffer. So that's very interesting because, you know, I've been..."
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