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Jiang says China's historical self-understanding as Zhongguo or the Middle Kingdom inclines it toward trade and border security more than external domination.
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Chinese history
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"...China's not that interested in the periphery. If you look at Chinese history, China has not been aggressive when it is aggressive. It's because..."
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"Yeah. So the most traumatic event in Chinese history was during the Tang Dynasty. And the Tang Dynasty was China at the height of..."
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"...the actual trade, okay? As you can see, for most of Chinese history, until about, you know, 2022, it tracks pretty closely. But starting..."
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"...And from this generation emerged some of the greatest leaders in Chinese history, including Mao Zedong, including including Daxioping. And they came into office..."
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"...doesn't really have a global vision. and if you look at Chinese history in times of major international tumult, what China often does is..."
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"...And this is a very very famous st rat agem from Chinese history And there are lots of these st rat age ms actually..."
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"...a tempest in the grand scheme of the grand arc of Chinese history. Um, so China has been through much change and tumult. In..."
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"Look, I mean, if you look at Chinese history, China, it's very hard to threaten China militarily. China now has nuclear weapons as well...."
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"No. And the reason why is that for Chinese history, it's always been the bureaucrats who control China. And for bureaucrats, religion is a..."
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"...that's always been the case. Okay? If you go back to Chinese history and you look at all these revolutions that started in China,..."
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"...bad. Okay? And this is, and again, you just look at Chinese history, right? Look at Chinese history where at the beginning of the..."
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"...the third thing is drugs, okay? So listen, going back to Chinese history, Britain did fight the opium wars in order to enforce drugs..."
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