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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Japan before World War II was getting 90 % of its oil from the United States. But Japan was becoming too powerful and so..."
Jiang argues that Japan continues buying U.S. Treasuries not because they are attractive on their own terms but because Treasury demand acts like a subsidy or bribe to secure American military protection and reduce direct pressure from the United States.
Jiang says that, in oversimplified terms, China has functioned as a colony of the United States for the past thirty years.
"Japan before World War II was getting 90 % of its oil from the United States. But Japan was becoming too powerful and so..."
"...have a lot of soldiers in Japan. So Japan is a colony. And so what you do is you bribe the Americans to protect..."
"...say that for the past 30 years, China has been a colony of the United States. Why? Well, because first of all, Chinese are..."
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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