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China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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"The Manchus are just another iteration of the Ming Empire. They will rule China until 1911, when the empire is overthrown, a republic is..."
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"...the Song, okay? Okay? The Song is pretty united, and the Yuan is extremely united. So the Yuan Dynasty is able to unite all..."
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"...but we can get it if we buy it in Chinese Yuan right and so maybe we start to see an actual long -term..."
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"...much gold and then appealing to the world to use the yuan as the reserve currency. You start putting two and two together and..."
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"...establishing an independent economic system that is based on the Chinese yuan as opposed to the US dollar. So that was his intention. But..."
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"...you had the petrol dollar being strategically weakened with the petro -yuan. You had the breaking of the peg by weakening the currency. you..."
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"...sulfur content, that this will be done in petrochemicals, in petro -yuan rather than the petro -dollar? That poses a threat to US economic..."
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"...Golden Horde will eventually give rise to the Russian Empire. The Yuan Dynasty will eventually fall and give rise to the Ming Empire. Okay?..."
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"...have problems managing the people. Okay? So in China, during the Yuan Dynasty, the Chinese, there's a class system. The Mongols were at the..."
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"...entirety of the Song Empire and unites China, okay? But the Yuan dynasty... The Mongols are considered a foreign dynasty. So I mentioned that..."
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"...a bit better. But when you get to the Song, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing, it's all pretty unified nationally."
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"...is the culture. All right? Another example, of course, is the Yuan Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty, China was importing a lot of foreign..."
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the coming U.S.-Iran conflict is not only empire and alliance pressure.
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