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Jiang says the modern China-U.S. relationship exchanged American manufacturing offshoring for Chinese elite formation inside American institutions, creating future Chinese elites educated into U.S. loyalty.
Jiang argues that in the 1980s America shifted technology, wealth, and expertise into China in order to exploit cheap Chinese labor for manufacturing goods for the American market, which made Chinese industrialization a process of mental and economic colonization rather than sovereign development.
Jiang argues that when America offshored manufacturing to China it knowingly externalized not just labor exploitation but also environmental destruction, expecting China to accept dirty production in exchange for integration into the American-led system.
Jiang argues that since the 1980s America deliberately offshored manufacturing to China and empowered financialization at home, leaving finance rather than industry as the decisive force in U.S. politics.
"been true historically, where an empire, the way the way it controls its vassal states is basically keeping the children of the elite of..."
"that's a great question and this is my understanding in the West industrialization was a all society movement and it profound it brought tremendous..."
"much yeah so um when America offshored its manufacturing of China um did so knowing that uh China would um basically exploit its cheap..."
"Yeah, that's a great point. But what we need to remember is, ever since the 80s, America made a conscious decision to offshore its..."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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