Gap between trade flows and financing flows that Jiang reads as potential capital leakage.
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Current-account/trade-account divergence
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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..."
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"...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..."
"So in other words, what's really driving China's export mania, a lot of this is money laundering. as people try to flee the country...."
"...to these crisis points. And even though there might be some divergences, but you always end up in the same place. Now, and this..."
"My life took a sharp divergence when I went to Yale, okay? Because, you know, I was a poor immigrant in Toronto, and I..."
"So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and..."
"...this war in Iran happens, then you'll probably start to see divergence in their in in their interests. You know, Israel wants to create..."
"...the, this is the, this is the, this is the major divergence between the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The French Revolution, it..."
"...by the time you hit the Greeks, there was now this divergence between those who believed that the universe revolved around the sun and..."
"...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,..."
"...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..."
"...Chinese. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why there was this divergence between Greece and China at this time. Because China, literacy was monopolized..."
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