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11 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-05-14, day precision Aliases: current-account-trade-account-divergences, divergence, divergences

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Current-account/trade-account divergence

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...2022, it tracks pretty closely. But starting in 2022, there's this divergence, a huge divergence. You know about $500 billion a year, guys. Why..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...2022, it tracks pretty closely. But starting in 2022, there's this divergence, a huge divergence. You know about $500 billion a year, guys. Why..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Trump in China as a Grand Bargain Engine (2026-05-14, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Trump in China as a Grand Bargain Engine; Attention Is The Real Battleground; The Bank That Made The Game.

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Key Notes

Timestamped Evidence

Attention Is The Real Battleground

2026-03-11, day precision · Jiang Xueqin: Humanity's patterns, the nature of reality, and the battle for your mind.

Transcript

"...to these crisis points. And even though there might be some divergences, but you always end up in the same place. Now, and this..."

Attention Is The Real Battleground

2026-03-11, day precision · Jiang Xueqin: Humanity's patterns, the nature of reality, and the battle for your mind.

Transcript

"My life took a sharp divergence when I went to Yale, okay? Because, you know, I was a poor immigrant in Toronto, and I..."

The Bank That Made The Game

2026-01-22, day precision · Game Theory #6: The World's Bank

Transcript

"So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

Transcript

"...the, this is the, this is the, this is the major divergence between the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The French Revolution, it..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

Transcript

"...so voluntarily, all right? So as you can see, there's tremendous divergence. There's tremendous diversity within the Protestant faith, and it still continues today,..."

Islam As Proto-Modernity

2025-03-11, day precision · Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam

Transcript

"...first question is, how did this happen? Why was there this divergence? Second question we're going to look at is, what ended the Islamic..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Attention Is The Real Battleground

2026-03-11, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.

The First Livestream At The Edge Of Empire

2025-10-11, day precision · alias-match

Reading

This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...

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