Physical is stupid though. Why waste so many resources and distribution(distribution wastes a lot of resources including gas, people time, vehicles and overproduction) when it can use the internet for basically no resources except electricity and fairly effective use of servers.
Japan basically got the chance to be something bc Qing Dynasty refused to work with Imperialists colonists. The americans and portugues would have loved to be on China instead of the shitty Japan. Even thailand would have been mlre interesting to colonialists.
A major mistake that haunts the entire region to this day.
Just saying that damascus swords are middle eastern. Chinese steel were insanely good too. They had steel and chrome centuries and millenia earlier than others.
China is pretty poor individually. Its the sum. India is simply poor entirely outside of some billionaires
Modern China started late bc of civil wars but chinese culture including confucius was always about educating until you can do well in imperial exams, so you can serve the country.
You are using a free version.
ChatGPT4 and free Bing(ChatGPT) uses recent data
Only child is heavily spoiled and oftentimes the opposite of independent