Jiang's phrase for elites maintaining relationships on multiple sides of a geopolitical conflict at once.
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double game
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...have no loyalty except in themselves, right? They're always playing a double game. So, we see the world in terms of nation states, but..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...have no loyalty except in themselves, right? They're always playing a double game. So, we see the world in terms of nation states, but..."
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He argues that elites have no loyalty except to themselves and therefore routinely play a double game across nominally opposed nation-states.
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"...have no loyalty except in themselves, right? They're always playing a double game. So, we see the world in terms of nation states, but..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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