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Jiang reads Cavalcante's question about Guido as a rivalry question: if Dante can make the journey through poetry, Guido should be at least his equal.
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Rivalry
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Jiang's Princeton-envelope story is meant to explain Dante's cruelty by showing how meritocratic competition turns intimacy into rivalry.
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David's likely motive toward Uriah is fear and rivalry, not merely desire for Bathsheba.
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Jiang argues that long historical animosity between India and China is one reason their relationship remains structurally difficult.
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"what's going on um dante is talking to someone and then someone else overhears and this person is cover context so sorry i i..."
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"all right so let me tell you a story okay this happened um in china where there were two students at uh qinghua university..."
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"that's that that that's correct yes i understand but i'm saying like what sort of culture what sort of environment would would create that..."
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"winner takes all unforgiving culture right well dante and guido are competing to be the best poet in italy and right now who who's..."
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"And Bathsheba, remember, is married to Uriah the Hittite. Okay, so who is Uriah? Uriah is the best soldier in David's army. He's very..."
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"You're a great warrior. Why don't you go and see your wife? But then Uriah doesn't go see his wife because Uriah says to..."
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"But if you think about it, what probably happened was reverse where David becomes jealous of Uriah and he becomes fearful of Uriah because......"
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"...Asian countries and so there's always going to be some geopolitical rivalries between India and China in fact India would see China as the..."
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"also you see this a lot in sibling rivalry yes too because the closer you are to another person the more more it impacts..."
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"that i understand the rivalry between the united states china uh the the problem of iran but uh but russia is you know it's..."
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"...to the Guelphs. So he was just born into this political rivalry. And over time, what will happen is that the Guelphs will win,..."
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"...force for good because not only would it prevent great power rivalry, but also by dominating the liberal leadership, liberal democratic West will be..."
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