Pronatalist financial incentives fail in Jiang's model because people want status, and status or power is zero-sum while money is not.
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Policy
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Key Notes
He suggests policymakers may use a depression-like cycle plus control infrastructure to consolidate authority and normalize wartime scarcity.
Jiang proposes restricting dual citizens from U.S. Congress and national-security roles as one possible way the United States could limit Israeli influence.
Jiang says Sweden's COVID approach was more rational because it accepted viral spread, protected vulnerable people, and avoided sacrificing young and working populations to lockdowns.
Jiang says sinophobia and Russophobia are major drivers of EU policy and block a more rational strategic pivot.
Jiang says Australia should trade with China as much as possible.
Jiang says Australia should trade with China as much as possible.
Jiang argues that mainstream candidates in American democracy largely represent the same core interests, which is why he doubts figures such as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would differ much at the policy level.
Timestamped Evidence
"so you know i'm trying to extrapolate what this will be the lived experience for us because the wall street journal recently reported that..."
"history might repeat itself so what led to world war ii was first of all 1929 stock market crash where you know billions of..."
"Look, there's a lot of agency. And Donald Trump could have come to Jesus' moment and he strikes a deal with the Iranians and..."
"But not only China, but the entire world followed China and locking down. I'm like, what is going on here? This makes no sense...."
"It was the most successful strategy at that time, and it worked out really well for Sweden. Their economy wasn't impacted that much. The..."
"...and and these two things are what drives a lot of policy in the eu and so the reality is that trump is not..."
"Now it's one. Okay? So the trend is very very negative. Okay? So governments all around the world are trying to figure out what..."
"what is our way forward in Australia to go against the narrative um so you know China does not have geopolitical ambitions um you..."
"interested in meeting meeting the current global uh order um one based on trade so um so if I'm Australia then I would trade..."
"...were in power would she be different than like donald trump policy wise uh probably not i mean like you know i mean like..."
"would make the argument that actually the cost of educating a child in the daycare system is going to be a lot less expensive..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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.
This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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