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Jiang presents the Malacca Dilemma as the core reason China wants a northern Russian trade route, but he says Beijing still prefers balancing rather than choosing Russia outright so that both trade pathways stay available.
Jiang says America's attempt to control China's trade routes is obvious to other countries, but U.S. blue-water naval dominance means they cannot immediately stop it.
Bronze transforms warfare because it combines tin and copper into superior weapons, but tin scarcity forces civilizations to expand trade routes.
Empires in the Bronze Age are not modern nation-states but networks of aligned trading points that control trade routes.
Mycenae’s importance comes from sea transport, logistics, piracy, and trade-route control in the Mediterranean system.
Spain's search for maritime routes is framed as a response to Christian reconquest, loss of Islamic trade integration, and Ottoman control of the old routes through Constantinople.
Vikings differed from other medieval invaders because their expansion operated by sea and river, giving them access to Europe, Kyiv, Novgorod, Byzantium, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Silk Road.
Because tin and copper were found in scattered places, making bronze required trade across nearly the entire known world, from India toward Britain and beyond the core Mediterranean network.
"...right. So one area of cooperation between Russia and China is trade routes. All right? So as we discussed previously in this class, what..."
"But China doesn't have that kamikaze culture of Japan. It makes me remember the Taiwan aspect. So you were mentioning that Taiwan separates Southeast..."
"Okay. So Trump's best play is to encourage Taiwan and China to reconcile. Trump's best play is for the next couple of years to..."
"Oh, look. Okay. What America is doing is obvious. All right? It's silly. It's really obvious to people, right? There's nothing you can do..."
"...to rearm as soon as possible in order to defend their trade routes. And so I think that as a Chinese strategist, I would..."
"...especially oil and food. And so we need to protect these trade routes. And so you will see much more aggression among the Japanese..."
"...know a so -called freedom of navigation aka dominance of all trade routes to cut off"
"...who needs to be dominated uh inch to ensure that their trade routes uh are directed by the us and therefore will benefit u.s..."
"...this war starts you have to be able to protect your trade routes okay so one of the major nations that is suffering heavily..."
"...being serious here because an empire needs to secure resources and trade routes and that's what an empire does so it's an empire in..."
"Okay, so that's a game being played, where America is trying to knock out critical infrastructure for your strikes, they will not send ground..."
"...make their empire is to use their Navy to control the trade routes of the world. That's why we're seeing what we're seeing in..."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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