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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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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"...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..."
"...the actual trade, okay? As you can see, for most of Chinese history, until about, you know, 2022, it tracks pretty closely. But starting..."
"...And from this generation emerged some of the greatest leaders in Chinese history, including Mao Zedong, including including Daxioping. And they came into office..."
"...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..."
"...And this is a very very famous st rat agem from Chinese history And there are lots of these st rat age ms actually..."
"...a tempest in the grand scheme of the grand arc of Chinese history. Um, so China has been through much change and tumult. In..."
"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...."
"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..."
"...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,..."
"...bad. Okay? And this is, and again, you just look at Chinese history, right? Look at Chinese history where at the beginning of the..."
"...and the collapse is devastating so remember in if you know Chinese history you will know that this is a Shaan dynasty right guess..."
"...So there are lots of historical figures like that. Even in Chinese history you have quite a few historical figures like this as well...."
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