Jiang says Trump's national-security strategy argues that post-World-War-II America bankrolled Europe and East Asia and is now demanding that those regions pay more for their own defense and for continued access to American protection.
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U.s. Empire
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"Look, I mean, if you look at the national security strategy, it's very simple. What Trump and his administration say is, look, for the..."
"It's time that the Europeans paid for their own defense. It's time for the Europeans to obey American orders because America controls the seaways...."
"Makes a tremendous amount of sense. It is the kind of thing that explains your absolute meteoric rise. This is a very, very useful..."
"Yeah, well, let's get right to it then, Professor Jiang. So I wanted to ask you just right out the gate. In prior shows..."
"the American empire yeah I mean that seems to be exactly what what is happening Professor Jung but then at you know what do..."
"welcome everyone good evening welcome back to the show it's your host danny haifang as you can see i am joined by uh jiang..."
"anything they found they knew something going to happen that wasn't going to go too well for the u.s empire what's your take"
"and there aren't aircraft carriers here to support a long -term strike because a lot of them have been moved to the caribbean or..."
"Yeah, exactly. That's what I said. That's exactly why I bring this up. It's like, you think that's easy, but it might actually be..."
"it's just complete nonsense yeah it's certainly the model and it's a you know what you just described with canada is uh copying the..."
"Yeah, exactly, because this world is changing so dramatically, and I think that's what's causing so much of this tension, too. The more that..."
"Yeah, I mean, what's so interesting about this and when we talk about money flows and investments is that I'm curious on your thoughts..."
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