Jiang explicitly rejects a science-versus-intuition split by saying that for Dante science and intuition are codependent and that real scientific insight requires intuition.
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Codependence
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Key Notes
He argues Thucydides trap is overblown because China and America are codependent: America offshored manufacturing to China while China offshored elite education and indoctrination to America.
Jiang says Trump does not seek regime change in China because the United States remains dependent on Chinese manufacturing.
He says the U.S. and Chinese economies are codependent: China props up the dollar by sending cheap goods to the U.S., while the U.S. sends dollars, technology, and market access back to China.
Jiang says China and the United States have been codependent for roughly thirty years and that Xi Jinping's rise strained that friendship.
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"Okay. All right. So let's try to make this simple, okay? It might be wrong, but let's try to make it simple, okay? Your..."
"So from a rational perspective, this does hold, okay? But there are certain issues with this thesis. Okay? The first issue is that from..."
"In many ways, China has been colonized, sorry, America has colonized China, okay? And so the Chinese elite are very pro -American. And so..."
"Okay, so what Trump wants is submission from China, okay? Trump doesn't want that. He doesn't want regime change in China. He doesn't want..."
"Yeah, so I have a very different take on the U.S.-China rivalry than other analysts. OK, I believe that Russia, Iran are both revisionist..."
"and opening and also opening its vast consumer market to Chinese consumer goods and therefore giving Chinese millions and millions of employment opportunities. So..."
"Yeah. So I think what's really important to understand is that China and the United States, the United States have been codependent, have been..."
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