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He argues that elite investors control modern financial markets so thoroughly that AI companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic can be pumped up and dumped on retail participants indefinitely.
Jiang treats current oil pricing as evidence that markets are rigged, because in his view recent geopolitical conditions should already have driven oil much higher.
The GCC is the linchpin of the American Empire because oil sales generate U.S. dollars that are reinvested into U.S. financial markets.
He predicts that a massive U.S.-China grand bargain will emerge within the next few months and says billionaire interests want access to Chinese consumers and capital through treasury-linked stable coins.
Jiang says China can still destabilize the dollar, citing early-2026 silver export restrictions and resulting stress in US financial markets.
Jiang says China will not agree to liberalize its financial markets, leaving expanded Chinese consumer spending as the only real space for negotiation with Trump.
"Look, I have to say this, but the stock market, the financial markets, are no longer retail. It's just a few people who control..."
"...who want to use China, who want to access the Chinese financial market. Okay. They want to sell, uh, us treasuries retail to the..."
"Algeria uh these places they're all Right? So if you rally the people who hate their governments and you overthrow them then that makes..."
"...of the UAE. Okay? Saudi Arabia and Kuwait into the US financial markets. As you can see from 2012 up to today it's been..."
"50 % of its oil comes, uh, from, sorry, uh, trying to import three quarters of all its oil needs of half of those..."
"...commodities exchange in the United States and this destabilized the US financial markets. So what we're seeing is almost mutually assured destruction, right? So..."
"...so there's no way that China would agree to liberalize its financial markets. So the only place for negotiation is the Chinese consumer. The..."
"...its financial sector to wall street, um, basically liberalize the Chinese financial markets. And as you can, as you can appreciate, even though China..."
"...uh, the second, uh, agreement where China would liberalize its, uh, financial market, China couldn't do that because if China were to open up..."
"Chinese financial market okay there was an impasse so Trump just basically said I'm not going to bring this guy okay and then as..."
"...what's happening right now. I spoke with five people who are financial markets experts in a Twitter forum some couple of weeks back, and..."
"...into it. But again, there's massive money coming into the U.S. financial markets and they need to create more investment vehicles for investors. Okay?..."
This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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