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
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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..."
"...is about how protests in Albania broke out over the luxury resort. And this has been going on for a few days now. And..."
"...Because if you look at who's speaking out about the luxury resort and who's articulating the discontent, it's usually young people who study abroad...."
"...now uh you know the the ruling establishments are having to resort to ever more obvious and ever more drastic uh uh repression and..."
"...like in a couple days in a you know five -star resort and in the Maldives you could be eating avocados from Mexico you..."
"...Epstein files. He did live in Manhattan and he had a resort in Palm Beach, Florida, one in New Mexico, and he has ties..."
"...the US media as the world's free speech defender of last resort. You said, in China, power trumps truth. And China's Communist Party, you..."
"...the meaning of that. It means either ground invasion or a resort to nuclear weapons. Let's start with the second hypothesis first."
"...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."
"...complete control over everything, which makes kids resentful. And so they resort to these tactics. So yeah, so that's the situation in China right..."
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