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Jiang says nation-states are a recent political form, only a few centuries old, and that they accelerated after the French Revolution.
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Jiang says that when oligarchy hardens, people cry for a king because a king can unite them against oligarchs, cancel debts through jubilee, and redistribute land or wealth toward the people.
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"of already live in a a globalized bureaucracy yeah so um I think nation states were a recent phenomenon they are recent phenomena they've..."
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"Look, look, I mean, you can make the legitimate argument that the choice isn't between monarchy and democracy, the choice is between monarchy and..."
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"Why? Because first of all, a king can unite them against the oligarchy. And what a king does is often cancel debt, right? The..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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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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