So, yeah, Ma- um, Granich was someone who was beneficiary in his later years from this pleasant-sounding language, but he certainly wasn't an expert on (Chinese).... friendship, uh, or Druzha, the Soviet term.

Yeah.

I, luckily we can be very precise about our understanding of what it means to be an old friend of the Chinese people, because this is a phrase that has occurred on the pages of the official People's Daily for decades, since 1949 and beyond.

And it's important to remember that, you know, there's no accidental use of language in that newspaper, a newspaper that proudly calls itself the (Chinese) mouthpiece, or the throat and tongue of the Communist Party.

You know, every phrase that's used in there has a very precise meaning.

And as it's used more and more over the years and decades, we get a pretty clear idea of what it means.

And I thought it, it was interesting the way you, um, asked about how this relates to Confucianism as well.

And having these controllable foreigners, these biddable foreigners like Rui Ali in the Mao Zedong era and Martin Jacques and Kerry Brown in this era who will go on CGTN and say what China is allowing a foreigner to say, that is very helpful.