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The British imperial game works because it incentivizes local elites in India and China to cooperate: help Britain steal, and Britain helps them move wealth and children abroad.
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Money laundering is defined as the process by which Britain and its offshore centers disguise stolen or illicit wealth as legitimate assets such as restaurants, real estate, or overseas investments.
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He argues corruption is not a bug in China but a feature that appeases local elites and therefore protects regime stability.
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"...answer is, England simply set up a game that incentivized the local elites to cooperate with England, okay? So this is the way... This..."
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"And the reason why is... Remember, last class, the local elites aren't confident with each other anyway, okay? And what they're looking for is..."
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"...So this is a global money laundering system that encourages the local elites to be corrupt, okay? It protects them in a corruption, and..."
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"...the people are not a challenge to your authority. It's the local elites that could rebel against you. So by creating the system in..."
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"...rights. And when Britain became an empire, this was important because local elites in China, in India, in Southeast Asia would help the British..."
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"...to everyone else and that limited its capacity to work with local elites, okay? So in other words, eventually India rebelled to establish its..."
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"...it works really well, okay? This is an indoctrination system for local elites. And it works really well because remember, if you're a really..."
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"...managed to roll out so quickly that they basically gave the local elites a chance to say, basically, open your doors to us and..."
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"...The same strategy happened in China as well. Where the Chinese local elites were helping the British establish open trade networks, throughout the country,..."
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"...throughout Persia he also has diplomats throughout Persia negotiating with the local elites okay so he's now ready to go and conquer uh Persia..."
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"...with small army which tells us that he needed cooperation from local elites okay remember at this time in history Persia has reached an..."
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"...that if you have a very effective administration, that allows for local elites to focus their energies on trying to join this administration as..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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