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Game Theory #27: Putin Enters the Chat - YouTube

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A Beijing classroom dissects Putin's grand strategy through Game Theory — revealing how one autocrat calculates moves to outmaneuver the world's dominant superpower.

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Theory Briefing

  • Professor Jiang's May 2026 lecture frames Putin's anti-American strategy as a calculated multi-player game, not reckless aggression.
  • Game Theory predicts that a weaker player can win by exploiting the dominant power's overcommitment — exactly the playbook Jiang attributes to Putin.
  • Teaching this framework to Beijing high schoolers signals how China's next generation is being primed to read geopolitical rivalry through strategic-interdependence logic.