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He says Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia become U.S.-enabled counterweights to Chinese supremacy, while all sides remain dependent on U.S. energy, food, weapons, and financing.
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East Asia
He says Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia become U.S.-enabled counterweights to Chinese supremacy, while all sides remain dependent on U.S.
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Jiang says East Asia and Europe are heavily dependent on Middle East oil, with the world drawing about 20 percent of oil from the Middle East and Japan drawing about 75 percent from there.
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Because China, India, Japan, and South Korea import large amounts of Middle East oil, a GCC collapse forces them to buy from the United States or Russia.
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Nations need spiritual rejuvenation because populations that remain non-religious and materialistic will struggle when material conditions worsen; Jiang names East Asia as especially vulnerable here.
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In East Asia, Jiang says an initial coalition of Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Russia might form to contain China, but could later shift to contain Japan as Japan rises.
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Jiang predicts that, by this game-theory logic, North Korea has a better future than China because openness, energy, and cohesion matter more than wealth and power.
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Jiang predicts Japan should dominate East Asia because World War II destruction and humiliation forced reflection and preserved energy, openness, and cohesion.
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He presents the PISA rankings as the conventional evidence for believing East Asia will dominate economically, while warning that academic performance is not the same as social power.
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"...Chinese supremacy in order to create balance, a power balance in East Asia."
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"And once this power balance is created, they all depend on us, the United States, because we have energy. We have food. We have..."
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"...of its oil from the Middle East. Okay. Partly going to East Asia. So India gets about 6 % of its oil from the..."
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"This war in the Middle East is going to knock out the oil production of Saudi Arabia, of Iran, of Iraq, of UAE, of..."
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"...Because your people are not religious and too materialistic. And unfortunately, East Asia, okay, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, are especially non -religious. That's going..."
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"...constantly shift over time. It's possible that in the beginning in East Asia, maybe Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, United States, Russia combine to contain..."
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"So let's combine against Japan. Okay? It's a dynamic situation. But basically, what you have to understand is that everything that you've been taught..."
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"...were to surmise the future, I would say right now in East Asia, I would think that North Korea has a better future than..."
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"...was never a great empire. So, Japan should come to dominate East Asia. According to this theory. Remember, the Americans dropped two nukes on..."
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"And now, they want vengeance, basically. Alright? And the last country, of course, is Israel. Alright? Because Israel, the people in Israel believed that..."
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"...the nations that do really well are actually based primarily in East Asia and they are Japan South Korea Vietnam China that's why a..."
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"you actually look at american society and you look at who succeeds it turns out east asians don't do as well as you think..."
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