Glossary
Jiang's label for the non-Western world whose anti-imperial memory and resentment he thinks makes Russia's self-defense narrative persuasive after the Ukraine invasion.
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Global South
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...with them. Okay? All right. Now, let's go on to the Global South. Okay. So, the thing about the Global South is that Russia..."
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Jiang says support for Putin rose across the Global South after the Ukraine war because many non-Western audiences interpret Russia not as an imperial aggressor but as a state resisting Western bullying and NATO encroachment.
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Jiang presents Africa as the strongest zone of Global South support for Russia because memories of Western imperialism make anti-American narrative framing especially effective there.
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"...with them. Okay? All right. Now, let's go on to the Global South. Okay. So, the thing about the Global South is that Russia..."
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"...are not part of the West, if you're part of the South, what you will appreciate is that the West is this imperial bully..."
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"is also trying to do is create a narrative that Russia is liberating the world from Western imperialism. And this has particular strength in..."
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"...financial powers diversify over to China, the Middle East, and the Global South. Excellent. Well, I'll let Professor Zhang respond to anything that he'd..."
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"Well, on the global South though. Do you see any other developments? Predictions for 2026? Given that you predicted the attack on Iran, do..."
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"the Global South reprashmon with India yeah so the mood in China it's very complex um and especially after covid because remember after covid..."
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"...massive amounts of immigration that's been flooding into Europe from the global south for the last few decades? Is that why they've let in..."
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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