In the same vein, two linguistically distant languages may be classified as dialects due to political reasons.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
帝国主义列强强迫中国订立了许多不平等条约，根据这些不平等条约，取得了在中国驻扎海军和陆军的权利，取得了领事裁判权，并把全中国划分为几个帝国主义国家的势力范围。
帝國主義列強強迫中國訂立了許多不平等條約，根據這些不平等條約，取得了在中國駐紮海軍和陸軍的權利，取得了領事裁判權，並把全中國劃分為幾個帝國主義國家的勢力範圍。
dì guó zhǔ yì liè qiáng qiáng pò zhōng guó dìng lì le xǔ duō bù píng děng tiáo yuē ， gēn jù zhè xiē bù píng děng tiáo yuē ， qǔ dé le zài zhōng guó zhù zhā hǎi jūn hé lù jūn de quán lì ， qǔ dé le lǐng shì cái pàn quán ， bìng bǎ quán zhōng guó huà fēn wéi jǐ gè dì guó zhǔ yì guó jiā de shì lì fàn wéi ．
The imperialist powers have forced China to sign numerous unequal treaties by which they have acquired the right to station land and sea forces and exercise consular jurisdiction in China, and they have carved up the whole country into imperialist spheres of influence.
In Zhuang, syllables in multisyllabic words are distinguished according to the syllable structure and tone symbols... When the syllables still cannot be distinguished accordingly, an apostrophe "'" needs to be used to divide the syllables