prediction
He predicts the European Union could be dead in about five years because voters reject a foreign pan-European identity imposed over local identities and relationships.
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European Union
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model
Jiang says bureaucratic bloat in Europe, Canada, and China reflects the same structural mechanism: when a state lacks a coherent narrative that binds people together, it compensates through ever-larger bureaucratic control.
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Jiang says the European Union relies on heavy bureaucracy because historically antagonistic national groups there are not naturally held together by a shared narrative.
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"Yeah, it's the same issue in Canada, same issue in China. You have a bureaucracy that's out of control. It's expanding. But it's the..."
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"And now Europeans are rebelling or revolting against that. Second thing that they don't like about Europe so far is the idea of federalism,..."
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"...it's imposing a foreign identity on me. And proponents of the European Union would argue that, no, this is just a secular, liberal idea,..."
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"...they had envisioned like multiple unions across the world, like the European Union, North American Union, et cetera. Is what Trump trying to build..."
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"...One possibility is this ingrained hatred of anything Russian in the European Union. There's a deep -seated, irrational hatred That goes back to the..."
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"conspiracy to undermine the european union um so if you're conspiracy theorist you have a lot of reason to think that americans are trying..."
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"...Experiment says, there's a growing bureaucratic bloat and stagnation in the European Union. I was wondering how this could possibly be stopped."
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"...you also have NATO versus Russia. So there's rumors that the European Union is about to send troops into Ukraine. Russia has broken through..."
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"Russia and Ukraine will become a welfare state for the European Union, and Putin is very happy to have that happen. This means that..."
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"Canada, Mexico, quite possibly, very quickly, the European Union, and the United States is already at economic war with Russia and China, okay? So..."
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