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Foreign professional labor Jiang says the Gulf must import because it lacks the domestic human capital to run a real knowledge economy.
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang says the Gulf order is structurally unsustainable because it depends on desalination for water, imported food for basic survival, and imported foreign labor for its knowledge economy.
definition
Jiang argues GCC states lack the basic ingredients of viable nationhood because they depend on desalinated water, imported food, and imported knowledge workers.
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"Right. So these places are mirages. So let me explain what I mean. These places exist as constructs of empire. So for the longest..."
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"...could starve to death in the GCC and the third is knowledge workers so they don't have the human capital to support a knowledge..."
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"Now it worked out great for these Gulf states because you you were under the protection of the American military. And at this time,..."
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"...of 21st century knowledge economy. So they basically import their their knowledge workers as well from overseas. So these are not viable nation states...."
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