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He says Xi's visit to North Korea is driven by concern over Japanese remilitarization, which Jiang attributes to an American desire to retreat from security burdens in the Asia-Pacific.
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North Korea
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Key Notes
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He proposes that North Korea functions for China the way Israel functions for the United States: a destabilizing pitbull used to preserve leverage over a region.
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Jiang says the four states not yet completely infiltrated and co-opted by the United States are Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea.
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He claims that actors such as Israel, Putin, North Korea, and Donald Trump are respected precisely because others believe they might actually press the button and blow up the world if sufficiently threatened.
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Jiang reduces Putin's usable anti-American coalition to Russia, Belarus, Iran, and North Korea, treating Venezuela as conquered, Syria as destroyed, and Myanmar as too consumed by civil war to matter strategically.
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Jiang dates Putin's North Korea turn to June 2024 and treats the mutual defense pact as a major strategic escalation because it obligates Russia and North Korea to defend one another if attacked.
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Jiang says the June 2024 Russia-North Korea mutual defense pact is strategically strange because North Korea already has a 1961 defense pact with China, so Putin's direct pact with Kim Jong-un signals a deeper plan whose purpose may become clearer only after a few years.
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Jiang states that Kim Jong-un has strongly backed Russia's war in Ukraine and says North Korea sent 10,000 troops, whose importance lies in their willingness to fight to the end even if they begin poorly trained or undisciplined.
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"...piece of news is that President Xi of China has visited North Korea."
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"And the last time he visited was actually in 2019. So why did he go? Well, because of Japan. So, let me explain So,..."
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"...interest to challenge Japan. So, what's your solution? Your solution is North Korea. Right? So, think about what Israel is. Israel is a pitfall..."
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"...needs to beg China to come and intervene and balance out North Korea. So, you put this pitfall on the leash because we can't..."
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"...completely infiltrated and co -opted. They are Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea."
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"And the United States wants to destroy all four. John Jack says,"
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"...this world is respected. Well, Israel is respected, Putin is respected, North Korea is respected, Donald Trump is respected. Why? Because they're all crazy...."
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"...Okay? So basically, there are four countries left. Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea. So these four are going to work together in order to..."
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"If Russia is attacked, North Korea must come to the defense of Russia. Okay? This is a big deal because previously, North Korea had..."
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"...to the enemy, guess what happens to your family back in North Korea? Okay? So the thing about the North Koreans, remember, is that,..."
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"...you can tell because of the birth rate, right? Where in North Korea, the fertility rate is still 1.81. It's not that high. It's..."
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"North Korea will also lose people, but just if there's no war, if we just keep on going, eventually, South Korea will go to..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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