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Jiang’s account of the Trojan War as conflict over strategic trade-route control rather than heroic romance.
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Trade war
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to win the game. So it's possible that this US -China trade war will end up collapsing both nations. But that's not the point...."
Key Notes
prediction
Jiang says that a U.S.-China trade war could collapse both nations, but that mutual destruction would still count as an acceptable outcome inside the logic of the game because the point is victory, not preservation.
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He links recent U.S.-China frictions to a sequence starting with AI restrictions (Manus, Nvidia access), counter-sanctioning, and Iran-related security tension in the Persian Gulf.
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He claims the trade war partly reflects China’s refusal to adopt conditions linked to IP enforcement and full capital convertibility expected in the WTO process.
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Jiang says China saved the global economy after 2008 by investing in infrastructure and Belt and Road, then demanded equal status, provoking the Trump trade war and U.S. sanctions/blockade attempts.
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Troy matters strategically because it controls Aegean trade routes; in Jiang’s frame, the Trojan War is a trade war.
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Jiang reads trade-war logic as relative status psychology: American consumers may lose purchasing power, but if China falls more, supporters can still feel happy.
model
He says these same billionaire interests helped initiate the earlier trade war and are now pushing rapprochement because China's WTO-era bargain with the United States did not fully develop as expected.
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Jiang says China achieved low-cost manufacturing partly by accepting labor and environmental practices other states would reject, and that the trade war plus real-estate collapse severely damaged Chinese consumer confidence.
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"...to win the game. So it's possible that this US -China trade war will end up collapsing both nations. But that's not the point...."
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"...to, uh, China. So these are the people who initiated the trade war in the first place. And these are the people who want..."
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"It cannot debug the existing, uh, software. Um, so, uh, that shows you how much innovation comes from abroad. China itself lacks the capacity..."
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"in consumer settlement. And so right now in China, people, people refuse to spend money. You have this, um, complete collapse in the Chinese..."
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"It was personal. Right. Uh, Chinese consulate in Houston, he kicked out Chinese reporters, he canceled the Peace Corps. He, uh, he, he called..."
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"And right now America is able to control the entire global trade of semiconductors. And that's why America doesn't really fear China. Uh, it,..."
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"...the Americans were afraid of voter backlash and that's why this trade war was constrained. Also corporations needed access to, um, to the Chinese..."
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"Uh, yeah. 2018, January 2018 to today. Yes. Yes."
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"...the China market, right? Okay. So what's the point of this trade war? Okay. So on the surface it was because America wanted greater..."
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"...tech elite. Right? So, so a major, uh, point of this trade war was to basically dislocate the financial elite from the source of..."
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"So the first thing that happened is that China blocked Manus. Manus is an AI company that Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy. And Manus..."
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"...And this also seems like an escalation in the US -China trade war where previously, Chinese institutions, banks, individuals, complied with US sanctions. And..."
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