Jiang predicts Europe will pivot in a year or two either by choice or because Trump's aggression and insults leave it no alternative.
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Pivot
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Jiang says Trump has spent the past year trying to engineer a Ukraine ceasefire, knows it will not work, and therefore has to pivot toward China.
Jiang predicts that American leaders will throw many strategic ideas at the wall and none will stick because the military bureaucracy is incapable of genuine pivoting or reprioritization.
He concludes that as Russia rises, China is compelled to pivot back toward the United States because Russia threatens China more than America does.
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"...mean either european is smart enough right now and make this pivot or trump's gonna force him make the pivot in a year or..."
"...knows it's not going to work. So now he has to pivot to China. And so he needs to reestablish the economic relationship between..."
"Yeah. So my gut reaction is that they're going to throw a lot of things at the wall and nothing's going to stick because..."
"...rises in global dominance china is now sort of compelled to pivot back to the united states okay so that's that's the grand um..."
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