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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Why would they do this? That's how you become a new empire, by being a person on the old empire. If the old empire..."
Jiang says rising powers become new empires by exploiting the complacency, corruption, and decadence of an old empire rather than by challenging it on moral grounds.
"Why would they do this? That's how you become a new empire, by being a person on the old empire. If the old empire..."
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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