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The speaker claims about a third of the U.S. Navy is deployed to the Caribbean to block trade in the Western Hemisphere and make China, Japan, and South Korea seek U.S. permission for access to Western Hemisphere resources.
South Korea is Jiang's worst-case fertility scenario: aging and childlessness threaten economic collapse, military capacity, and nation-state survival.
Jiang controversially says North Korea may have a better future than South Korea because the poorer theocratic society supplies meaning, fertility, and willingness to sacrifice.
Jiang predicts eventual East Asian conflict but says it will not be primarily a U.S.-China Taiwan Strait war; it will involve Japan and South Korea.
Jiang identifies South Korea's very low fertility, anti-family culture, and inequality as vulnerabilities that could undermine its wealth and technological advantage over North Korea.
Jiang predicts as a thought experiment that North Korea could overtake or eventually conquer South Korea within roughly twenty years by converting poverty, cohesion, weapons exports, Ukraine-war experience, and threat leverage into military power.
Jiang predicts North Korea can threaten South Korea to force America to divert resources to East Asia and possibly push South Korea and the United States to bribe North Korea.
"...if you are China, if you are Japan, and you are South Korea, if you want to access Western resources, Western Hemisphere resources, you..."
"...people man. Um okay. Here's the problem though. Okay? This is South Korea. Okay? South Korea is like the worst case scenario. And for..."
"Okay? That is a zombie society where no one works and everyone just I don't know walks around the park every day. No one..."
"So if things are stay the same if nothing happens South Korea will be will be dead in I don't know by 2150 okay?..."
"Okay? And if you're a middle class person in South Korea it makes no sense for you to have three kids. It makes sense..."
"...example is North Korea has a fertility rate of 1.79 while South Korea has a fertility rate of 0.78. Okay? So, North Korea is..."
"...one person. All right. So, North Korea which is poorer than South Korea has more children. Right? Why? Well, because people in North Korea,..."
"Okay. What starts these hurricanes? Or what starts this process? All right. So, if you look at an ocean, you will discover that these..."
"...United States and China. I think it will involve Japan and South Korea. All right? It will not be over the Taiwan Strait. It..."
"north korea with south korea okay and these countries are same culture right same people but they're night and day north korea we know..."
"do you know it's not having children in fact it has the world's lowest fertility rate at 0.8 okay it's women are refusing to..."
"...it is possible that in 20 years time North Korea overtakes South Korea because its people are willing to work harder than the South..."
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