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He cites export-route dependence (Chinese trade hubs and choke points) as making China vulnerable to U.S. maritime leverage and thus dependent on U.S. access.
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Vulnerability
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Identity politics is described as a product of the postwar individual-rights order and as the celebration of individual helplessness requiring state protection of vulnerable groups.
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Jiang says the Gulf states are the American empire's great vulnerability because unlike Israel they lack the ideological resilience and societal hardness to absorb prolonged war pressure.
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Jiang argues that modern technological civilization is extremely vulnerable because societies have overextended resources and built infrastructure that is much more fragile than most people understand.
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Jiang says Saudi Arabia is exceptionally vulnerable because its oil-centered economy could be devastated by Iranian ballistic strikes within a day.
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"is huge china's spent waste sorry china uses twice as much energy as america for its manufacturing sector in order to create exports therefore..."
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"study abroad, even as the economy is failing, even as though there are less and less opportunities to do well in China, all right?..."
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"How much Chinese actually traded. The blue tracks the current account, okay? How much Chinese have in the bank because of the trade. The..."
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"Yeah. So the Gulf states are the great vulnerability of the American empire because Israel, it has an eschatology. Unfortunately, religiously, zealots have taken..."
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"Yeah. We're extremely vulnerable. I mean, we've overextended our resources. Our entire technological infrastructure, it's much more fragile than people understand."
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"Yeah, so, we have to remember that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are essentially American vassal states. Um, so, um, the concern is that if..."
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"That's what fascism is, the unit of will. We as a people, if we come together, we will be this invincible, inevitable historical force..."
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Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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