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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So Trump is in China. This happened about 30 minutes ago, an hour south of us. So Trump came in last night, and this..."
Jiang says a bargain is still likely and suggests one possible tradeoff is U.S. restraint on Taiwan independence in exchange for a broader U.S.-China accommodation.
Jiang predicts that some conflict will occur but that both sides ultimately benefit from avoiding escalation, so the likely end state is managed confrontation followed by negotiation.
"OK, this is what I think is most likely to happen. Chinese consumers spend money on education. So if it's possible that the Chinese..."
"And it was, you know, a couple of stealth bombers dropping buster bombers on an empty Iranian facility. And it was mainly just about..."
"But I think this conflict will be managed to avoid escalation. And a lot of it will just be huffing and puffing because ultimately..."
"So Trump is in China. This happened about 30 minutes ago, an hour south of us. So Trump came in last night, and this..."
"That's a lot of money. And these are very busy people. And quite honestly, I've worked in business negotiations. You do not bring these..."
"This team is the one that sets the agenda for the U.S.-China visit. Because it's Scott Besant, we can probably guess that this is..."
"That is funny because they're always right. I like that because that's like, you know, something tells me that was a bit of a..."
"um in in East Asia and into what effect though because uh obviously what we're talking about here then is uh U.S China competition..."
"or your economy is going to collapse yeah no indeed and uh while donald trump's words cannot be necessarily trusted for anything given that..."
"gorilla so what's trump saying is that you're going to play when he negotiates, he's going to negotiate to the end. So what he..."
Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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