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Jiang says both Xi and Trump are trying to consolidate their domestic power bases by placing loyalists into positions of power.
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Loyalists
The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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"Right. So in geopolitics, I think a general rule that always applies is that the conflict within nation states is always greater, more intense..."
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"...can tell, there have been people who have been Xi Jinping's loyalists who have been purged by Xi Jinping's adversaries. So there is turmoil..."
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"...revamping the federal bureaucracy and replacing the global deep state with loyalists to Trump. So, I would argue that's actually much more a likely..."
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"...first to speak sacrifice is not Trump, not any of Trump's loyalists, but Larry Summers, who is a deep state operative. You can argue..."
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"...Americans who wanted to remain in the Union. And so these loyalists, a lot of them were terrorized by extremists who wanted independence, okay?..."
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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