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He argues that America made China rich in order to make China use U.S. dollars, granting market access, investment, technology, education, and military protection.
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Technology Transfer
Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
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China invented gunpowder, but Jiang says Europe transformed it into projectile warfare and then the technology returned to China in adapted form.
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Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
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As Yamnaya culture spread, Jiang says groups adapted to local geography, mixed nomadic pastoralism with local agriculture, and stole local technologies such as shipbuilding.
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"It's only valuable because people want to use it. So, now Nixon has to go and create demand for the U.S. dollar, right? So,..."
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"That's number one. Number two is America gives China FDI technology education, all right? Imagine what happens. America gives foreign investment to China, gives..."
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"It should make China use U.S. dollars, okay? It's that simple, okay? So now when China trades with the world, it gets U.S. dollars..."
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"Remember, it was China who invented the gunpowder. But what's interesting is when China invented gunpowder, it was not used that effectively. The Chinese..."
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"how was it possible for the Arabs to defeat both the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire? And the answer is this. What..."
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"Because there's a crisscross of empire. So if India wanted to access Egypt, because again, Egypt for the longest time was the wealthiest civilization,..."
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"So what's happening was, as they conquered different territories, they had to adapt themselves to that territory because the geography is different, okay? So..."
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"And then they stole the technology. They killed the people, and they learned the technology, okay? Once they had the technology, then they sailed..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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