Jiang argues that China would benefit from friendship with America but is pushed toward Russia because the United States is launching an economic war, surrounding China with bases, and could embargo oil and food imports.
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Military Bases
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Key Notes
Within that proxy model, Jiang argues that American bases, technology, and infrastructure will be transferred or leveraged so that Washington can keep exerting hegemony indirectly even while appearing to retreat.
Jiang grounds American decline in debt, extreme inequality, ossified and corrupt elites, and imperial overextension marked by more than 800 military bases and multiple wars.
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"...build up where does it go um and germany has u.s military bases um and so um america thinks that it can still exert..."
"...right now is, the empire is overextended. It has over 800 military bases around the world. It's fighting all these wars, both shadow wars..."
".S. dollars, and it's transferring its U.S. dollars into gold, okay? So China is encouraging everyone to buy gold. Don't buy any more U.S...."
"...you look at a map, okay, China is surrounded by U.S. military bases. And the problem is that China needs imports of oil and..."
"...the government takes them over, then these data centers can become military bases, right? Good luck trying to attack a data center if it's..."
"...seems to have some involvement. I don't know if they have military bases in Taiwan. But they have a strong navy and they are..."
"...that by striking Tehran, and you do that by striking the military bases and installations throughout Iran. It's what the Americans call sharpen all...."
"...the influence of the great Satan. Because why are there US military bases in Saudi Arabia?"
"...Israel will absorb Sancom, which is the Central Command, the American military bases in the Middle East, and they will achieve the greater Israel..."
"...now, they're trying to target... uh weapons they're trying to target military bases that doesn't get you anywhere okay you you need to better..."
"...need to be able to bring you know 700 800 900 military bases to all these places in the world because you need to..."
"...alone so that gun to people's heads is the is the military bases and the carrier strike groups and so forth so over this..."
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