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A student responds that immigration can also be refuge, citing persecuted Europeans during World War II who saw the United States as a promised land.
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World War II
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He argues that Japan repeatedly demonstrates resilience under existential pressure, citing survival against the Mongols, the Meiji Restoration, and post-World War II reindustrialization.
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Jiang treats the global reserve currency not as a timeless necessity but as an accidental outcome of World War II that let the United States impose one currency as the basis for global value.
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Jiang claims World War II was won by the Allies because they could destroy German and Japanese productive capacity while America and the Soviet Union preserved theirs.
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Jiang connects the creation of the Federal Reserve with America entering World War I, the 1929 crash, the Great Depression, and World War II.
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He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
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Jiang predicts Japan should dominate East Asia because World War II destruction and humiliation forced reflection and preserved energy, openness, and cohesion.
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American universities rose from nonexistence in the global research hierarchy to dominance through research investment and postwar importation of German scientific talent.
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"...immigration, I want to point out that, for example, with World War II in Europe, when many people were persecuted, they came to see..."
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"...an industrial power in about 20, 30 years' time. After World War II, when"
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"...the Zabatsu system, which is basically monopolies, industrial monopolies. After World War II, they got rid of those things, they ate the rich, and..."
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"...before. Why did it happen? Because of an accident of World War II when the Americans won and could impose their system on everyone..."
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"...or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war to destroy the entire society...."
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"So in World War II, what they recognized is there's no point in killing soldiers on the battlefield because they'll just send in more..."
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"...followed by the Great Depression. And then 1941, America joins World War II. Okay, do you understand? So, Federal Reserve System means that, like..."
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"Historical patterns just means can we think about previous wars and compare, contrast how this war will play out based on previous wars? And..."
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"So I think the idea is that when people are desperate, they are most likely to be afraid and therefore. Most likely to be..."
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"...guys, we're headed towards the Great Depression. We're headed towards World War II. The Nazis will rise. The Soviet Union will rise, okay? And..."
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"...go and conquer the world, which it does, okay? In World War II, America conquers the world. And so now what America needs to..."
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"...a great empire and that is Japan. Because Japan lost World War II. It was never a great empire. So, Japan should come to..."
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