A written language associated here with elite literacy monopoly and mastery by scholar officials.
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Classical Chinese
A written language associated here with elite literacy monopoly and mastery by scholar officials.
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Classical Chinese is described as a language created or intensified by elites so that only they could master literacy.
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"...way they did so is by creating a new language called Classical Chinese. Literally Chinese. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why there was..."
"...lot of money in order to pay the media to frame Chinese AI as a threat, okay? But while it's doing that, it's working..."
"...would be very, very angry. Okay? So even though these are Chinese companies that are doing this, they're working very closely with American companies..."
"...bloc and think to themselves, wow, these guys, Russians, Iranians, and Chinese, they use gold as their medium of exchange. Gold is valuable. The..."
"...put all this money into welfare, into their pension system. The Chinese have been giving America a bad trade deal. The Chinese steal American..."
"...their naval assets in the Caribbean today. It's to tell the Chinese and the Russians, back off. You want to come here, you either..."
"...the Russians were to come in, they could also bring the Chinese into the war on behalf of the Iranians."
"And the Chinese could use the Belt and Road Initiative, basically the railway system, to reinforce Tehran from the east. So now you can..."
"...the Russians get involved in this war, they bring in the Chinese, they provide the resources and the financing to continue this war for..."
"...in a gray area where I do not interact with the Chinese internet. So everything I do is in English. It's meant for consumption..."
"...international. Much more cosmopolitan, but this is not part of the Chinese tradition."
"russians or the chinese or the iranians okay all right so the way you put america into check is by enhancing the polarization and..."
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