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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...You come to China today, and after a few decades of economic reform, you have this tremendous arrogance and hubris in the people, that..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...You come to China today, and after a few decades of economic reform, you have this tremendous arrogance and hubris in the people, that..."
Jiang says that in the 1980s China still saw itself as a distinct civilization to be protected, but economic reform gradually Americanized the economy and middle class.
"...is to protect it. And now after 20, 30 years of economic reform, where the American, sorry, where the Chinese economy has basically been..."
"...You come to China today, and after a few decades of economic reform, you have this tremendous arrogance and hubris in the people, that..."
"So in the 1980s, China was embarking on economic reform. And there was a real concern among party elders, like people who went through..."
"...the communist system had an agreement where we will engage in economic reform. And we will allow. The elite to engage in corruption. And..."
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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