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Jiang says China lacks a grand geopolitical strategy or theory of its world role, unlike Britain/America's Heartland thesis or Russia's invasion-driven need for strategic depth.
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Geopolitical theory
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"It doesn't really understand its place in the world. It doesn't have a theory to explain its place in the world. So remember, previously..."
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"For China, what's important is to maintain its territorial integrity by not participating in the world. China built the Great Wall. The purpose of..."
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"...geopolitics. And I started to recognize that, you know, this standard geopolitical theory that I have, game theory, doesn't really explain everything. Because for..."
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"...to understand what's going on, I need to teach some basic geopolitical theory, okay? So in military affairs, in geopolitics, there's a concept called..."
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