Jiang argues that even if America lost a war, there would still be no peer competitor to the United States, so the world would divide into regional blocs rather than immediately replace U.S. power with another single hegemon.
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Peer Competitor
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"...powerful. So, even though America loses the war, there's still no peer competitor to the United States. But all that means is that the..."
"...where it is continuous civil war, is that America has no peer competitor in the Western Hemisphere. And as a result, all the conflicts..."
"...So that... It's protected by two oceans. America doesn't have a peer competitor in North America and South America. And so, I mean, America,..."
"...think that once this war is over, Israel will have no peer competitor in the Middle East, meaning that Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia will..."
"...have always controlled the Western Hemisphere, right? I mean, there's no peer competitor in the Western Hemisphere to America. So America will eventually get..."
"...argument that if China really is the only true, you know, peer competitor to the U.S. and thus they have to try to keep..."
"...not understand that uh the us views them as the near peer competitor and will ultimately want to destroy them through thucydides is our..."
"...great powers of the day okay including france which is the peer competitor to spain at this time you he'll also come come into..."
"...after the fall of the Soviet Union, no longer had a peer competitor. So the understanding of America is that from now on, they..."
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