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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "much yeah so um when America offshored its manufacturing of China um did so knowing that uh China would um basically exploit its cheap..."
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.
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.
"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..."
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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