The role Jiang says America resents: buying and paying so other countries can preserve welfare, pensions, and production systems.
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consumer of last resort
The role Jiang says America resents: buying and paying so other countries can preserve welfare, pensions, and production systems.
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"...of other nations? Why should America have to be the consumer of last resort for everyone? Why are Americans paying for everything so that..."
"...now uh you know the the ruling establishments are having to resort to ever more obvious and ever more drastic uh uh repression and..."
"...Well, and death ought to be the last step. The last resort. But in Canada, death is now the first resort. If you go..."
"...cheaper, you don't care. Okay? You're not feeling good. So you resort to habit. And habit is in the land, the family, the tradition,..."
"...we use the military, it will only because it's the last resort, the last option, and only for a limited strategic objective."
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