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Jiang says the present moment is a rupture in which institutions, belief systems, nation-states, and the global economy will break down.
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Nation States
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Key Notes
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He argues that elites have no loyalty except to themselves and therefore routinely play a double game across nominally opposed nation-states.
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Jiang says the world is better understood through deals among transnational elites than through a simple map of sovereign nation-state interests.
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Jiang says he treats nation-states as if they were individuals with their own histories, worldviews, motivations, and reasoning processes.
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"...only are values and institutions are going to break down, but nation states are going to break down as well. The global economy will..."
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"...a double game. So, we see the world in terms of nation states, but we should actually see the world in terms of, you..."
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"...game theory. Basically the idea is that, you know, I see nation states as individuals with their own history, with their own worldview, with..."
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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