Jiang says he once saw late-1990s America, especially Yale, as proof that a highly open and self-critical society could not decline quickly.
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Late 1990s
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, I went to school at Yale. And this was like the late 90s. And Yale College, America at that point was very open,..."
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"Look, I went to school at Yale. And this was like the late 90s. And Yale College, America at that point was very open,..."
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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