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> The Chinese bureaucracy has millennia of experience controlling large groups of people in the same way that the Chatholic Church has millennia of experience p
by 0x8BADF00D 7y ago
> The Chinese bureaucracy has millennia of experience controlling large groups of people in the same way that the Chatholic Church has millennia of experience preaching.
Yet they couldn’t control a band of wandering, illiterate horsemen. The human spirit can never be controlled.
- steve19 7y agoExcept they did. The horsemen got fat on Chinese food and used to Chinese comforts and culture. They stopped riding and became Chinese (just not Han Chinese). China today claims the whole of Mongolia as theirs.
- ptx 7y agoThey don't claim the territory of Outer Mongolia, do they? Only Inner Mongolia is part of China, as far as I know.
- FooBarWidget 7y agoThey don't claim it because they seceded it to Russia in order to keep peace with Russia: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-China-re-take-Tibet-but-not-Mongolia/answer/Yu-Hsing-Chen-1 https://www.quora.com/Why-did-China-re-take-Tibet-but-not-Mo...