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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Right, so I think that for the longest time, the American empire was able to make an illusion that it is a multilateral consensus..."
Jiang says the old American-led order looked multilateral because a tight social club of transatlantic elites shared schools, manners, spaces, and assumptions while making real decisions behind the scenes.
"Right, so I think that for the longest time, the American empire was able to make an illusion that it is a multilateral consensus..."
Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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