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For Jiang, China's Great Wall symbolizes a strategy of preserving territorial integrity by keeping outsiders out and insiders in, rather than projecting power globally.
"...territorial integrity by not participating in the world. China built the Great Wall. The purpose of the Great Wall was to prevent outsiders from..."
"...been in East Asia, protected by the sea, the mountains, the Great Wall, it really wasn't in competition with the rest of the world,..."
"...China is the only nation in the world to build the Great Wall to keep people out, right? And it's a very large complex,..."
"...like, leave us alone, right? You know, like China built the Great Wall to be left alone. And for most of its history, it..."
"...does not engage with the world. That's why it built the Great Wall. Um, China for four or five, four or five thousand years..."
"...you don't have this spirit. China built a wall called the Great Wall. Why? Because it did not want to deal with the world...."
"...invade most of China. And historically, the response has been the Great Wall of China, okay? But also, in Central Asia, the steppe people..."
"...moment he goes home, he has an epiphany. He sees the great walls of Uruk."
"...the Great Pyramid, except for two. The first structure is the Great Wall of China. There's more stone in the Great Wall of China,..."
"...the west, you have mountains. To the north, you have the Great Wall. Okay? So China doesn't feel threatened by anyone, and therefore, it..."
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