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I downvoted the parent comment but your response is also disengenuous. Unless I’m allowed to claim credit for Rome’s victories the ‘China’ that invented those t

I downvoted the parent comment but your response is also disengenuous. Unless I’m allowed to claim credit for Rome’s victories the ‘China’ that invented those things shares nothing with the China being discussed right now.

manjushri 9y ago
>shares nothing with the China being discussed right now. Seems like apples to oranges, assuming the implied comparison is with western post-industrial age nations, which began industrializing centuries ago, as compared to decades ago with China.
pishpash 9y ago
They share the familial authoritarianism that is the explicit governing model for every version of "China".