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Jiang says China peaked around 2008, expanded too quickly, and is now burdened by debt that it must painfully work through.
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Peak
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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"Um, what I mean is that China peaked in about 2008. Um, and when I mean pick in me, I meant that expanded too..."
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"So this is the highlight or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war..."
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"...dinner and you know, if you live in California at the peak of covid. Yeah. You have to be very careful if you were..."
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"...of experience named best home security system of 2026. It's the peak of the industry. And right now, listeners to this show can get..."
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"...actively fortifying your cells every single day that's what nandika by peak is built to do i've tried it and i'm telling you right..."
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"...them out. All's well. But then we didn't move at the peak of them killing 30,000 plus civilians. So then I was like, what..."
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"...and so we're living at a time when we've reached the peak of globalization and it's amazing to think about okay but think about..."
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"...you know this is all theological and that we've reached the peak of human civilization it's not true go look at the pyramids man..."
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"...a man on earth, not a man on earth. even at peak strength, would find it easy to prize it up and shift it...."
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"...-eyed goddess Pallas lost no time. Down she flashed from the peaks of Mount Olympus, quickly reached the ships and found Odysseus first, a..."
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"...it as he's being right it's I mean, that's just the peak of some kind of magic trick. How would you make people your..."
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"...today that the world wars were kind of like the... The peak of that potential for mass conflict, and we're almost too poor to..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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