Jiang says Chinese elites have weak incentives to clean up domestic pollution because they plan to emigrate to places like Australia and America, so the people making decisions are willing to continue environmental damage while their own children live elsewhere.
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Emigration
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Jiang says China has become a plantation economy whose elite class is largely overseas, so the country's celebrated industrial and technological achievements are bound up with extraction and exit rather than stewardship.
Jiang predicts that many Israelis who reject religious fanaticism will emigrate using foreign passports, while those who remain will consolidate behind the extremists and continue the war to the end.
The host says Israel's war path now appears to be producing emigration, economic decline, bunker life, and chronic fear of a larger war with Iran.
Jiang says affluent Chinese families increasingly choose Canada, New Zealand, and the United States because they believe the domestic school system is hurting their child's curiosity, creativity, and imagination.
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"much yeah so um when America offshored its manufacturing of China um did so knowing that uh China would um basically exploit its cheap..."
"class um they're overseas so it's a plantation economy China has essentially become a plantation economy um the the things that you read about..."
"country. This is a good thing. Because this is a test of true faith. Because having faith is what gives you power. So one..."
"Or do you want to divide Israel and be conquered by, you know, the Gentiles, right? So they're not really giving the nation of..."
"Yeah. And it seems like the the roots of Israel, you know, many have been talking about the roots of Israel, colonialism and what..."
"Yeah. I think that's a huge threat for a particular political and social order like the one Israel has. How does all of this..."
"That's a great question, and that's really the paradox of China's school system right now, because, as you say, because of PISA, Shanghai is..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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