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Jiang says America imagines China as a Taiwan threat because the military-industrial complex needs new enemies to justify defense spending.
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Defense Spending
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Jiang says Europe is also being forced to spend more on defense despite aging populations and weak economies, which threatens the social contract between European governments and citizens.
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"The Nord Stream pipeline was blown up. We don't know who, but we can suspect it was the Americans. And that did a lot..."
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"...And America is always fighting wars. So to justify all this defense spending, it needs to find new enemies. And it believes that the..."
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"dollars. Okay? So basically, what's happening is that the Communist Party is storing the wealth of the Chinese people in American banks. This is..."
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"...war in ukraine started you know accounted for 53 of global defense spending and what trump wants to do now would effectively push that..."
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"time that actually the only benefit of uh increased NATO defense spending in Europe is to fill the pockets of uh military industrial companies..."
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"play out germany just approved 55 billion euros in defense spending just yesterday the bundestag approved it um so so how is this situation..."
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"...NATO has pledged, I think, 3 % of its GDP to defense spending. That's also extortion, right? Because what America wants to do is..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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