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Jiang argues that surrounding China with U.S. bases and cutting Malacca, the Middle East, Angola, and Indian Ocean routes would leave China dependent on U.S. terms for food, energy, and factories.
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U.s. Bases
Jiang argues that surrounding China with U.S.
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Iran’s decision tree aims to force the United States to admit defeat and retreat from GCC military bases so Iran can control Hormuz and world trade.
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"military bases. As you can see, China is completely surrounded by U.S. military bases in Japan, in South Korea, in Taiwan, even in Indonesia..."
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"So if you're China, yes, you could rely on Russia, but you see how little this is, okay? There's too little trade between Russia..."
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"So in other words, okay, this is a really important idea. The U.S. and Iran have different military decision trees. Okay? All right? So..."
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"are also threatening all the other GCC economies, threatening to close off the Red Sea for their proxies, the Houthis, and threatening to destroy..."
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"dollars, they could tax you, okay? Because they could inflate the price of the U.S. dollar. But now that people are choosing to opt..."
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"Hi YouTube, Professor Jiang here with another update. So, things seem to have quieted down in the Middle East. But as I said, all..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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