Jiang says elite actors at the top often belong to multiple networks at once and survive by being fluid and willing to change identity as crises emerge.
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Elite fluidity
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"Yeah. So, I mean, if we were to draw a diagram, you would see they're all intermarrying each other. I mean, it's extremely complicated...."
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