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Dave Kang

Sep 10, 2026

JoriHOST
4:22
in, in Beijing or do I have to send money? How does that work?
4:26
Yeah.
4:26
And so in some ways, using the word tribute makes it a little bit confusing.
4:30
It should be called an embassy system, or it's a series of principles and practices about diplomacy, right? And so it's not necessarily just giving and exchanging gifts.
4:39
What happens was there's basically two main principles in the tribute system, and the first one was the exchange of diplomats called tribute missions.
4:49
And there they would, uh, send and receive diplomats, and there was an entire protocol about how you do that.
4:54
And then there's also the pattern of recognition, how you called yourself and what you did in terms of, uh, relating to the other countries.

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JoriHOST
12:30
Yeah.

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