Jiang argues there is a ceiling on how far gold and silver can rise because buying bullion at scale is effectively a bet on total global financial collapse, which most investors will not fully make.
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Global financial system
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...West can choose to debank you, remove you from the global financial system. And Chinese investors care more about their relationship with the West..."
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Jiang argues that the opium wars created the infrastructure of the modern global financial system and that the same structure still survives as a money-laundering operation tied to drug profits.
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"...you're buying gold and silver. You're betting that the entire global financial system collapses, and that's a very hard bet for investors to make...."
"...was actually a profitable endeavor. And you create the entire global financial system off the opium wars. And so did that system go away?..."
"...West can choose to debank you, remove you from the global financial system. And Chinese investors care more about their relationship with the West..."
"...British free trade system. You know, once you dominate the global financial systems and your money, you're the chief creditor to the world and..."
"...which he sees as a source of power for the global financial system. He sees it as a source of power for the global..."
"...are status quo powers. They're very heavily invested in a global financial system that an invasion of Taiwan would destroy globalization. I mean, because..."
"...Because it's poor and it's been blockaded out of the global financial system. So from a game theory perspective, if you're North Korea, you..."
"...China in the 80s China slowly becomes embedded into the global financial system right and at this time and people don't really appreciate this..."
"...getting together and they're conspiring on how to create a global financial system that can control the world and create a feudal system, right?..."
"...imposing sanctions on Russia. So America, because it controls the global financial system, the ability to trade, America just basically sanctioned Russia and said,..."
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