Jiang argues that Japan is the dominant naval power in East Asia because, as a resource-poor island chain, it must maintain maritime strength in order to survive.
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Maritime Power
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Jiang argues that Japan, not the United States or China, is the great naval power in Southeast Asia once air power is set aside, because Japan's island geography compels maritime dominance.
Jiang uses a Mackinder-style maritime thesis to argue that British strategy has long depended on preventing any single great Eurasian land power from integrating the continent through trade routes and rail links.
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"...America is number one. Land, China, okay? But in terms of maritime power, it's Japan because Japan has actually no choice in the matter...."
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"...Japan Co -Prosperity Spirit. So Japan is very much an aggressive maritime power. Then you look at South Korea, which has always had these..."
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"So the greatest threat to British imperialism, the greatest threat to British global dominance is the unification of the Eurasian continent. If a great..."
"...East, the GCC, Africa, India. And they could negate the American maritime power and just trade amongst themselves using railways constructed by China. Alright?..."
"...they wanted to consolidate Europe. Cut off the British as a maritime power. And then that would destroy them. So this kind of made..."
"...competing interests. But none of them wants to be dominated. By maritime power anymore."
"Carthage, it is a trading power, is a maritime power. And while it's able to dominate its neighbors, it establishes an empire in Northern..."
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