Jiang says the deep state has multiple layers, including intelligence agencies, supranational bureaucracies, elite universities, and old families, but he treats secret societies as the main institution operating today.
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Elite universities
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...interesting about the point with the Chinese students coming to our elite universities and going back, I really just had not really considered the..."
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Jiang argues many Chinese students going to the United States are not top performers but students who failed to get into elite Chinese universities and are academically underprepared for success abroad.
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"them I mean yeah so I think there are many different facets to global deep state um you obviously have these organizations right the..."
"I think that a lot of people believe... made in heaven, but if you actually look at what's happening, it's a marriage made in..."
"...interesting about the point with the Chinese students coming to our elite universities and going back, I really just had not really considered the..."
"Well, a team of professors, professors at the very elite universities in China, Tsinghua University. And I don't want to talk to these people..."
"If you go again to these elite universities, Yale, Harvard, they are the most critical of Western civilization. They don't want to teach Homer..."
"...the American elite. Okay? Most of them are graduates of the elite universities. Okay? So this is an article in Nature. And they looked..."
"...do you think in this organization went to Harvard and other elite universities? So the red is the actual number. The blue is the..."
"...got at Yale, because again, the problem with going to these elite universities is, you're taught to think in a very rigid way that..."
"...for me except because I am an elite graduate of of elite University okay but what Shakespeare understood intuitively is no it's the common..."
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