Glossary
Regional trade organized by local hegemons and closed blocs rather than a single global order.
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mercantilism
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "if you go back to the 1980s um and just look at his speeches about foreign global trade about globalization his position has remained..."
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Glossary
State-directed trade organized to produce wealth for the state and protect imperial trade zones.
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Glossary
A turn toward self-sufficient supply chains and resource control when global trade is disrupted.
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Glossary
A state strategy of self-sufficiency and secured supply lines under fracturing global trade.
prediction
The end of Pax Americana will produce regional trading blocs, a return to mercantilism in which local hegemons guarantee trade only among allies.
diagnosis
The American Revolution is explained through three pressures: British limits on westward expansion, British attempts to tax colonists for defense, and mercantilist trade restrictions.
definition
Jiang defines mercantilism as state-directed trade for state wealth, producing rival trade zones that American colonists resent.
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diagnosis
Trump's foreign economic position is consistent from the 1980s: he sees global trade as a scam against America and has long talked about taking Iranian oil.
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prediction
Jiang predicts the Iran war will accelerate de-industrialization, remilitarization, and mercantilism as cheap energy and American security guarantees weaken.
prediction
Jiang says mercantilist pressure would force resource-dependent industrial powers such as Japan and Germany to reach outward if they want to preserve industrial strength.
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prediction
He forecasts three major trends: deindustrialization/deurbanization toward food and manufacturing, nationalism/remilitarization, and mercantilist self-sufficient spheres.
prediction
Jiang predicts the Iran/Middle East war will accelerate deindustrialization, mercantilist self-sufficiency, and resource wars, especially around water.
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"if you go back to the 1980s um and just look at his speeches about foreign global trade about globalization his position has remained..."
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"...will see emerge is regional trading blocks. Basically, the idea of mercantilism, okay? Mercantilism. And for most of you in history, this was what..."
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"It was more expensive, it was not so convenient, but it still works. So this does not mean the end of global trade, it..."
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"on the global economy right so um this war it will accelerate three major trends um and nations will have to adapt to a..."
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"...the world and the third major trend we should see is mercantilism meaning that now that global trade is disrupted nations especially advanced industrial..."
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"borders if you are to maintain your industrial might so these are the three major trends we should be seeing very quickly well here's..."
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"So the first major trend is is de -industrialization and de -urbanization. Meaning that it doesn't really make sense to have millions of people..."
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"...remilitarization is the second big trend. The third big trend is mercantilism. Basically self -sufficient economic spheres around the world. And it's going to..."
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"And then in the Western Hemisphere, I think that America will come out okay. Because really, I mean, America is a superpower regardless. So..."
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"...world has to practice now, nations and states have to practice mercantilism, right? They basically have to become self -sufficient and they have to..."
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"...it can, okay? So that's not a pretty sight, okay? So mercantilism. And the third, of course, is this war over resources. So basically..."
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"So I think these are the three big trends. That we have to anticipate because of this war in the Middle East. And so..."
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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