Message from @Weez
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They havent caught up in the past century and we’ve been there for that long, I doubt collapsing China could bring them up to speed
China had very little outside intervention by European powers for most of the time that it was a thing, and still managed to only be a few centuries behind
(likely because it wasn't a bunch of fucking tribes at that point, and hadn't been a bunch of fucking tribes for over a thousand years)
and once they started trading with europeans... it only took them a few years to catch up and have trains and modern military and large trading ports etc
sorry thats more for japan than chine *
Hell, Japan was fucking behind SO fucking much
china*
they had like...16th century guns in the 19th century?
FUCK KROGAN GOT BANNED
Whomstvnt?
and after a total of like....50 years (so by like...1900-1915), they had a more powerful Navy than China
Ok
(utterly curbstomping them in the First Sino-Japanese War, to the extent that they pretty much BROKE China for a decades to come)
Ok
Hahahaahahahahahahahhahahhaahahahah, no. I’m asexual
Asexuality is a mental illness
No science to back that up
Try again sweetie
Only my word.
Asexuality isn't the normal state of a human or animal
therefore, mental illness
Again, no science
animals have an innate desire to fuck and procreate
I’m off my break, so goodbye!
(it's literally hardwired into them)
>break
>like 2 minutes
Jesus, where are you, China?
It was 30
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Equestria
lore - btw talking about the japan-china thing made me thing about the rome-carthage thing... where rome had literally no navy... and carthage had the largest navy in the med... in a period of 2 years (After stealing a ship from carthage) rome took the fuck over
Yeah
It really depends on how determined a country is to advance
and if they can skip the r&d part and go straight to production (as japan did... as rome did)
Japan for example, saw Perry's expedition and was like "Sumimasen nani the fuck, we need to become that powerful or else we're not gonna be a major player in the world" IIRC