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Strategic flexibility means the actor with the most options and the most flexible strategy usually wins the fight.
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Jiang argues that elites maintain multiple mechanisms of social control and keep different options available so they can respond opportunistically when crises arrive.
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"...flexibility is, in a fight, the person who has the most options, the person who has the most flexible strategy, will usually win the..."
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"...I'm not saying they're going to do this, but they're keeping options open. In fact, you know, like if you've been reading the news..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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