>>206212it's called complacency and opium. they're the oldest civilization around still and didn't have a threat which they needed to push them forward. another thing is when the gunboat era happened europe got a huge head start and then subverted china with opium while having a strong military
don't feel smug and self-satisfied dude. throughout history china had been a thousand years ahead of europe until recently. why you believe you're totally above everything is just a delusion. remember america has banned and tried to destroy china since it was communist. we've banned them buying our advanced hardware and did everything in our power to slow them down.
look at japan by comparison and all the help they got. tell me that japan didn't do anything whille you play on your ps3 and are into weeb shit on a weeb website which is based off a japanese one.
