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Jiang links the rise of China directly to this reserve-currency strategy by arguing that America transferred manufacturing, technology, capital, and market access to China in order to sustain the U.S. dollar system.
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.
China invented gunpowder, but Jiang says Europe transformed it into projectile warfare and then the technology returned to China in adapted form.
Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
As Yamnaya culture spread, Jiang says groups adapted to local geography, mixed nomadic pastoralism with local agriculture, and stole local technologies such as shipbuilding.
He claims Israeli-developed surveillance technology was transferred into the NSA and that Israeli spies inside the U.S. national-security apparatus helped move sophisticated American technology back to Israel.
He says the U.S. and Chinese economies are codependent: China props up the dollar by sending cheap goods to the U.S., while the U.S. sends dollars, technology, and market access back to China.
Jiang's second reason is that American firms willingly transferred technology and expertise to build China's manufacturing sector, making the usual U.S. theft narrative misleading in his telling.
"US dollars, because US dollars is so complex to manage, your economy shifts from manufacturing to financialization. Okay? Financialization just means gambling. Okay? So..."
"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,..."
"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..."
"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..."
"So you blackmail their leaders. You listen on their conversations. So Israel, for its own survival, had to develop the most sophisticated, eavesdropping technology..."
"Yeah, so I have a very different take on the U.S.-China rivalry than other analysts. OK, I believe that Russia, Iran are both revisionist..."
"and opening and also opening its vast consumer market to Chinese consumer goods and therefore giving Chinese millions and millions of employment opportunities. So..."
"If you want to be oversimplistic, you can say that for the past 30 years, China has been a colony of the United States...."
"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..."
"how was it possible for the Arabs to defeat both the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire? And the answer is this. What..."
"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,..."
"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..."
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...
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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