Jiang openly acknowledges that any nation controlling multilateral organizations will use them to advance national interests.
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National interest
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"...you're definitely going to want to use them to expand your national interest. That's just human nature. That's just geopolitics. That's the way it..."
"But in terms of the American national interest here, if ultimately this gets resolved with Iran retaining its enriched uranium, with the regime still..."
"...specifics, but, you know, if they are overseas, where are their national interests aligned? Right. They want peace and harmony between China and America..."
"...retreat back into the Western Hemisphere and focus on Americans' core national interests. All right? They're also divided into finance."
"...much evidence that this really is the Americans are compromising the national interests of the British and the Europeans there's very little evidence of..."
"...them unable to kind of make genuinely strategic choices in the national interest of the european member states and the obvious uh strategic choice..."
"...of Americans. And so now America is going to put its national interests first."
"So, America First means basically to put American national interest before everyone else. And so, you can see the idea of America First as..."
"...Do you understand? Anglo -American foreign policy, it's not to serve national interests. It's not... It's to serve private capital. Okay? That's the first..."
"...that would be less political, that will be more independent of national interests, and which is more multilateral. So having different stakeholders and ensuring..."
"...very hard for them to get out. And the third strategic national interest is to create global legitimacy by defeating the Americans, right?"
"...of our neighbor. Okay? Owning property should also not harm the national interest as well. So he's putting severe limitations on the idea of..."
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