Men oversættelsen afslører også en vis grad af diplomati med nabokineserne, som det fremgår af hans udtalelse,
{{Citat|"While I have ruled here, I have become reconciled with the Chinese people. The Chinese people, who give in abundance gold, silver, millet, and silk, have always used ingratiating words and have at their disposal enervating riches. While ensnaring them with their ingratiating talk and enervating riches, they have drawn the far-dwelling peoples nearer to themselves. But after settling down near them these we have come to see their cunning."}}
Bilge Khagan henviser også til ansættelsen af kinesiske kunstnere, når han hævder,
{{Citat|"From the Chinese Emperor I have had artists to come, and have set them to work. My request has not been refused. They have sent the Chinese Emperor's court painters. I have bidden them set up a separate hall, and inside and out I have had them to make various paintings. I have had the stone hewn; that which lay in my heart to utter I have. Understand to see this all as far as the suns and subjects of the Ten Arrows. I have had the memorial stone hewn."}}
For yderligere at komplicere det allerede blandede syn på kineserne, indeholder inskriptionerne både tyrkiske og kinesiske oversættelser. Således indeholder inskriptionen bevis på, at Bilge Khagan havde kulturel interaktion med Tang-dynastiet.
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