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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that the Russians are simply too big. And also the whole political culture is less likely to subordinate their decisions to the US. So..."
Jiang frames Chinese self-understanding in this moment as reasonable, pragmatic, and willing to negotiate, holding that these are the qualities needed in the wider world.
Alexander says another reason for dysfunction is structural: the military-industrial complex was grafted onto an American polity that historically was not built for permanent large militaries or continuous arms production outside wartime.
Jiang rejects the idea that democratization pressure is likely in China because democracy is a foreign concept there and there is little appetite for it.
"the Global South reprashmon with India yeah so the mood in China it's very complex um and especially after covid because remember after covid..."
"yes I think so I think also there is something else and here I'm to um say something which i suspect some people might..."
"That's not likely in China. I mean, democracy is a foreign concept in China. There isn't really much of an appetite for democracy. What..."
"...that the Russians are simply too big. And also the whole political culture is less likely to subordinate their decisions to the US. So..."
Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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 interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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