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Jiang's practical indicator for distinguishing symbolic hostility from genuine regime-change escalation: whether Venezuelan exports to China are actually cut off.
"...but we won't see a full -scale regime change. And the litmus test, of course, is whether or not Trump embargoes Venezuela oil from..."
"And that's a litmus test of whether this war is eschatological or not. Okay. So that's the second thing. Um, the third thing is..."
"...we will embargo you, okay? So, this Venezuela, it's basically a litmus test to see how far America can go and to see what..."
The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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