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Jiang treats Putin's May 2026 Beijing visit as evidence of a visibly close China-Russia relationship, marked by repeated visits and an announced year of education exchange meant to deepen people-to-people ties.
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Diplomacy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "A couple of quick announcements before we start class. Next Thursday will be our last class, and we will do the final examination next..."
Key Notes
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The speaker predicts China will respond to Russia-U.S. maritime conflict by negotiating between the two, triangulating them, and trying to come to peace with both, often by paying both sides off.
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Merchant oligarchies use banking, navy/trade control, and diplomacy/intelligence to extract energy across time and space.
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After the Justinian-Belisarius conflict, Jiang says the Byzantines stopped major offensive campaigns and shifted toward defense and diplomacy, including bribing enemies.
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Jiang argues that Philip's smart diplomacy was as important as military strength because it bought time, exploited Greek rivalries, built alliances, and deceived enemies.
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Jiang interprets Trump's China visit as an effort to negotiate a broad grand bargain rather than to announce specific operational deals in public.
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Jiang says Islamabad peace talks would not have happened without Chinese pressure on Iran for a ceasefire, because China has too much energy invested in the region.
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Jiang says China may appear as diplomatic savior to Europeans, Russians, and Iranians as Trump looks erratic.
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"A couple of quick announcements before we start class. Next Thursday will be our last class, and we will do the final examination next..."
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"They went to a conference hall where they unveiled a photo of the two being very close. This is President Putin's 25th visit to..."
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"Yeah. So they're saying there might be a massive attack as early as this weekend. So I think what happened was that Trump went..."
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"Right. So remember that this weekend there were the peace talks in Islamabad. And these peace talks would not have happened without China pressuring..."
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"But China is an export -dependent economy. So if global trade stops, then it hurts itself more than other people. Simple as that. Simple..."
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"Is there a concern that President Xi starts looking like the real adult in the room? And that the United States loses that role..."
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"okay? This is something to look out for over the next year or two years. This conflict in the seas that will arise between..."
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"Right. So the official Chinese Communist Party line is that China is committed to global peace and to global trade that benefits all. China..."
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"Look, this is the question that Evan's going to debate for all eternity, because there's no real answer. Even today, Trump and his team..."
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"And that's what happened in the United States and Iran, where it was clear the United States was looking for any pretext to start..."
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"So we are in a situation because the United States presented Iran with three impossible demands. These three impossible demands are zero uranium enrichment,..."
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"And we all know that Netanyahu wanted a war. Steve Wyckoff, during the negotiations, went on TV and said that, oh, the Iranians are..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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