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8 timestamped hits 5 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-05-21, day precision Aliases: formats

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The Beijing visit is only the front door.

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Topic Scope And Freshness

The Beijing visit is only the front door.

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Putin Does Not Want The Throne (2026-05-21, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Putin Does Not Want The Throne; The Secret Faith Of Power; The Empire That Cannibalizes Its Allies and Comes Home to Civil War.

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Key Notes

Future-format plan voiced on 2025-10-11.

normative

Jiang says he wants the livestreams to become a regular practice and to go much deeper than the broad ask-me-anything format used here.

Timestamped Evidence

Putin Does Not Want The Throne

2026-05-21, day precision · Game Theory #27: Putin Enters the Chat

Transcript

"...do the final examination next Thursday. It will be the same format as the midterm examination, where you can prepare some questions, and we..."

The Secret Faith Of Power

2025-12-28, day precision · Professor Jiang Xueqin | Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob Frank, & The Secret Faith Of Power

Transcript

"...to a lot more stuff. When I started THC, the interview format was not as oversaturated and tired as it is now. And so..."

The Secret Faith Of Power

2025-12-28, day precision · Professor Jiang Xueqin | Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob Frank, & The Secret Faith Of Power

Transcript

"...got into in 2025 i look forward to opening up the format and bringing all sorts of new stuff out to you and some..."

When Bureaucracy Eats the Soul

2025-10-07, day precision · Professor Jiang Xueqin | Predictive History, Western Collapse, & The Ivy League Issue

Transcript

"...it went. It was great that he was aware of our format and I think he strategically opened up to some of that stuff..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Secret Faith Of Power

2025-12-28, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.

The First Livestream At The Edge Of Empire

2025-10-11, day precision · claims, semantic-ref, alias-match

Reading

This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...

When Bureaucracy Eats the Soul

2025-10-07, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...

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