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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "One is that they lose this war, in which case the people will rebel against you, okay? You lose authority. You lose the man..."
Jiang says overseas war is uniquely dangerous for Chinese rulers because defeat can trigger domestic rebellion while victory can empower a Caesar-like general against the throne.
Jiang argues that China is not presently equipped to fight an overseas war near Iran because it lacks a blue-water navy, overseas combat experience, supply lines, logistics networks, and command infrastructure for that theater.
"One is that they lose this war, in which case the people will rebel against you, okay? You lose authority. You lose the man..."
"as it also did of course in Vietnam right so um China right now is heavily reliant on Iran uh right because China imports..."
"...more concerned about domestic unrest than it is about, you know, overseas wars."
"...of all, it doesn't really have the capacity to fight an overseas war. The People's Liberation Army is very much a defensive army. It's..."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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