Multipolar world

The shared China-Russia slogan, but for Jiang it splits into two models: Xi's U.N.-stabilizing version and Putin's leadership-seeking version.

The world Jiang says follows American retreat, introduced as the next class topic.

A world divided among regional blocks rather than controlled by one unipolar hegemon.

Jiang's name for the order he says emerges as U.S. monetary and military dominance breaks down.

Jiang says most people, especially older people, will fail to make the mental shift into a multipolar world and many will effectively die rather than accept a new reality.

Jiang says the decline of Western power in a multipolar world intensifies white-supremacist reaction because formerly dominant societies can feel their cultural supremacy slipping.

Jiang says both Xi and Putin publicly endorse a multipolar world built on more exchanges, deeper cooperation in education and research, and resistance to unilateral domination.

Jiang says America's retreat from the world will produce a difficult transition into a multipolar world.

Jiang argues that even if America lost a war, there would still be no peer competitor to the United States, so the world would divide into regional blocs rather than immediately replace U.S. power with another single hegemon.

Jiang gives Germany controlling Europe, Japan controlling East Asia, and Israel controlling the Middle East as examples of possible regional blocks in a multipolar world.

Jiang says the American unipolar moment created a Roman-emperor middle-class lifestyle, but that lifestyle was unsustainable because it exploited the developing world and drained global resources.

Jiang says the conflict signals collapse of the petrodollar and of the U.S. dollar-based reserve system, pushing the world toward multipolar order.