Named After Jiang Xueqin's analysis of managed opposition. Three questions to determine if an apparent conflict is genuine or staged conflict: (1) Does the outcome threaten the system that extracts wealth from the public? If no, the conflict is managed. (2) Do elites on both 'sides' maintain back-channels, shared investments, or institutional overlap? If yes, the opposition is theatrical. (3) Is the structural output identical regardless of which side 'wins'? If yes, the dialectic is false. The Jiang Test is the engine's primary tool for distinguishing real political conflict from performance. Most apparent conflicts in the engine's analysis fail all three tests.