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The state's ability to collect taxes and control the economy, which Jiang says declines over time despite greater imperial safety.
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State capacity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. Look, the reality is that your military comes from your nation state, okay? Your military comes from your nation state. Why? Because it's..."
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Jiang argues that military power comes from the nation-state because the state provides weapons production, financing, and soldiers, so a domestic revolution would force the military to retreat inward rather than keep policing the world.
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Jiang claims Germany pioneered worker protections that made workers willing to fight and die for the country, making Germany unusually powerful by 1900.
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The Articles of Confederation are framed as wartime anti-tax and anti-army arrangements that cannot sustain postwar state capacity, producing Shays’ Rebellion.
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Wang Yuhua's paradox, as Jiang presents it, is that China's wealth and imperial security move in opposite directions: rich Tang emperors are vulnerable, poorer Qing emperors are stable.
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Jiang says the attacks on Iran are aimed not only at military and energy targets but at the state's capacity to govern and maintain a monopoly on violence.
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Jiang argues secret societies are structurally advantaged because they can work above overgrown bureaucracies whose siloed departments make normal governance cumbersome and hard to coordinate.
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Jiang says regime change in Iran is impossible without a ground invasion because the regime has been in power since 1979 and has built the organizational and infrastructural capacity to suppress dissent.
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He compares the Chinese state's edtech ambition to building a high-speed railway system for education.
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"Okay. Look, the reality is that your military comes from your nation state, okay? Your military comes from your nation state. Why? Because it's..."
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"...fact that the Israelis and Americans are trying to destroy the capacity of the state to govern the nation, basically destroyed the state's monopoly..."
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"these people um trust each other um and the third is coordination they're able to work together very well secretly so um why this..."
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"Yeah. So let me give you my reasoning, OK? First of all, the United States and Israel are committed to regime change in Iran,..."
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"A man of violence, a man of sternness. But he was an extremely pragmatic man. And his ambition was to have a unified Germany..."
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"So what they will do is institute the first welfare state, the first socialist state in the world. Look at this. They have health..."
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"The British are trying to impose an army on them. And because the British are trying to limit their trade. Okay? So, in order..."
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"So that's the answer. But then this gives rise to another question, which is, how was China able to create national unity? All right?..."
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"Five emperors, at least five emperors, during the Tang Dynasty were deposed by the elite. The aristocracy got together and were through the emperor,..."
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"That's a paradox that Professor Wang Yuhua is trying to answer in his book. Okay. So he, so, I mean, he is, he used..."
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"The up is when a new dynasty starts. And so at this time, the new dynasty is run by a very strong leader, like,..."
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"...years has been very focused on building up its education technology capacity. This is what's called a future school project, and the vision is,..."
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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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...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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Jiang starts with what looks like praise for China's move online during COVID.
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