I beg you to stop posting these pictures, i cant take my braincells dying anymore please show mercy.
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I beg you to stop posting these pictures, i cant take my braincells dying anymore please show mercy.
Why would you pick up a call from a scam centre?
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"Incidents have occurred outside the region as well. In 1999, a NATO airplane accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during a NATO operation to protect civilians during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Last year, a Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental United States until an American jet shot it down in the Atlantic Ocean."
American journalists lie as easily as they breathe. There are two lies in this paragraph alone. The bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was not an accident and the Chinese balloon was not a spy balloon. America and America alone is responsible for the tensions between China and the US. This is not a "both sides are bad" situation. All of the aggression is coming from the American side.
As they say India is the land of the future/dreams. Because good things only happen in the future over there.
On one hand, you said the barbarian Yuan and Qing were responsible for veering China away from industrialization and emphasized the ruling ethnic group. On the other hand, you started talking about xenophobia and how my assertion supported your argument (which is the barbarians being responsible for China's inability to industrialize). Finally, you stated in a separate post that the political upheavals in various Chinese dynasties doomed China to be behind in advancing technology.
To me, you don't have a coherent argument and a strong and clear assertion. You are just randomly posting claims without any connections or attempts to directly address the argument at hand. Also, your claim about dynasties prior to the Ming being the only ones open to foreign tech is just false. Work on developing a coherent argument with supporting facts first before making brazen claims.
On the other side of the pond, the Tories lost in a landslide, Indian Governor General of UK expected to resign tomorrow.
Yes, that's what the Cons get for trying to cut all homeless people in half by 2025 (and trying to implement mandatory draft or something).
actually there is a way to get non-citation economic data - use observations i.e. direct satellite imaging, electricity production observations, etc that do not rely on someone telling you what happened. This can theoretically be bought directly as a service from satellite imaging companies, although the cost for an individual is prohibitive. It can get as granular as parking lot data. This is exactly what the US tries to do to China, btw, because they don't believe Chinese numbers.
Basically, the large scale version of 'trust your eyes' rather than 'trust me bro'.
I am also just explaining why many Americans are very easy to persuade to reject reality - because their academics do not teach them that reality exists. As long as they can pull tons of citations, reality is whatever they want it to be. Chinese are not taught the same thing. I'm not saying this is good or bad, it is just how it is.
In an agrarian society the farmers are more important than merchants and artisans. Even in the US, urbanization only exceeded 50% in 1920 while industrialization of the US began in 1860's.
you cannot have 90% of the population as farmers and treat them like shit, while expecting a stable society.
the most important distinction of societies before industrialism wasn't in technology, as everyone had roughly the same technology from 200 BC to 1200 AD with only minor differences. Even guns were not the determining factor - Chinese, Turks, Persians and Indians had guns and cannons too. Up to 1700, most empires were stable once the New World got stabilized. Even colonization of the Americas, while hugely disruptive globally, didn't change the status quo for Spain much. They didn't go on a conquering spree with American resources, after all.
It wasn't until industrialization, steel, railroads, repeating rifles and steam engines that African tribes could be conquered due to the huge logistical challenges. And the US succeeded in the defeat of the Plains Natives where Spain failed because even horses, iron armor and guns were not enough, but railroads and steam engines were.
the most important distinctions of preindustrial societies was 1. internal cohesion, 2. population size, 3. historical records
that is why European kings spent tons of time and money fighting wars between Catholicism and Protestantism, and sponsoring illuminated gold plated Bibles. It wasn't that they really cared about obscure church doctrines, it was because allowing a religious split in your country weakens 1/3 of the fundamental determinants of state power and making the church unhappy weakens another 1/3.
that is also why Chinese rulers put tons of emphasis on the bureaucrat, scholar and farmer class and sponsored works of history by the bureaucrats, even to the exclusion of other forms of literature like the novel (which was unpopular until the Ming). Internal cohesion, population size through food production and keeping a detailed historical record were the extraordinary parts, everything else is just doing the “best known practices" that's worked for the past 1000 years and solving specific problems.
I suspect that the Chinese model with some updates may end up being the right one in the end, as low hanging fruit of technologies are picked.