conworldus
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You are changing the facts. The Qing Dynasty closed most trading ports and install draconian laws on foreigners. China was NOT OPENLY trading with anyone. The result is 200 years of pure spanking/humiliation for China. The cause is the closeness, stupidity.
I cannot believe that today, in our modern world, there are people who advocate Qing and Mao feudalistic ideology. This is not what China is about. India is a much more closed country. It won't even allow foreign retail FDI. It poses most drastic limitations on foreign investments. Is that doing India any good? Are Indians living anywhere near the standard Chinese are?
BTW, Tang was facing multiple threats from the nomads, Tibet, Japan, and Arabic. Tang subdued them all for centuries with a combination of openness and diplomacy.
I cannot believe that today, in our modern world, there are people who advocate Qing and Mao feudalistic ideology. This is not what China is about. India is a much more closed country. It won't even allow foreign retail FDI. It poses most drastic limitations on foreign investments. Is that doing India any good? Are Indians living anywhere near the standard Chinese are?
BTW, Tang was facing multiple threats from the nomads, Tibet, Japan, and Arabic. Tang subdued them all for centuries with a combination of openness and diplomacy.
Tang didn't have wolves. China was very much on her own development and it was a great dynasty.
China was openly trading with Europe, having a supreme trade balance with UK which ignited the Opium War and the subsequent destruction of my country.
With the wolves lurching @ every corner of you premises waiting for the chance for the first bite and them an all-out attack, you need to be very very concious! Open policy is not as simple as it sounds. It is a deep concept which requires careful strategic calculation.