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Xi's phrase for a world where might makes right and the rules-based order breaks down under unilateral power.
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law of the jungle
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Glossary
Jiang's phrase for a world where trade abstractions disappear and only military willingness and sacrificial resolve matter.
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Jiang reads Xi's multipolar language as a defense of a U.N.-centered, rules-based international order against the law of the jungle, unilateral bullying, and a revived fascist or militarist nationalism, especially in Japan and Germany.
definition
Jiang says BRICS, trade corridors, and unit-currency talk no longer matter because the world now runs on law-of-the-jungle logic.
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"...and he's very much afraid of a return to the law of the jungle, where might is right. So it's very important for the..."
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"...the world faces the danger of sliding back to the law of the jungle. As permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and..."
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"back the spirits of fascism and militarism, jointly pushing for the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. Okay? Alright, so..."
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"...about BRICS. Why? Because today, OK, we live in the law of the jungle. Who is strong wins. Who is weak dies. Who is..."
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"If you are not willing to do so, then you'll just sit back and be destroyed one by one. It's that simple."
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"...in Vietnam. Never left as a Green Beret just in the jungle six years straight."
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"...a new order in the Middle East. Because that's the law of the jungle. Okay? That is what is in the best interest according..."
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"...ground troops will be destroyed because it's an it's a mountain jungle, it's like Vietnam, basically. OK, so so that's that's my. My understanding..."
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"...aura of invincibility and inevitability. And if people recognize that these jungle guerrillas could defeat the American empire, then all credibility would"
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"...lost the war but they they have familiar terrain with the jungles iran is surrounded by a mountainous region so if they do put..."
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"...assumptions about the world are just wrong. It's a lot of jungle now, whoever's willing to fight, who's ever willing to die will win."
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"...Himalaya to the west, desert to the north, and then the jungles of Southeast Asia to the South. So China feels invincible. It's a..."
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