Is China the Sick men of Asia

While Europe battled and traded, China was the only civilisation that had grown completely independently of the west. For centuries, it ranked amongst the most civilised places on the planet, responsible for many innovations that would not be “discovered” in the west until hundreds of years later.

Many in China like to claim that their country has seen 4,000 years of continuous civilisation. In truth, new evidence hints that Chinese civilisation may even be older than that. Classical China was basically Rome in the East. The Roman Empire lasted a millennium, after all.

They had some decent advancements, they almost themselves went into an industrial revolution in the Song dynasty. It just didn't happen because they had an economy based on the much more efficient rice farming as opposed to wheat and other grains in neighbouring India.

Unfortunately, they had no economic rivals, and therefore no reason to do costly renovations and cultural changes to start industrialising. Europe, by being more of a clusterfuck of various states, had reason to industrialise, and did so.

The Chinese started exploring the west in 200 BC and found their way to Rome. The empires of China and Rome influenced each other in more ways than you’d expect.

The Roman Empire is unironically the most overrated civilisation of all time. Roman Empire really didn't do shit and most of what it had was copied from Greeks anyway. The British Empire dwarfed your achievements by conquering 1/3 of the entire planet.

Papers which are obviously crucial to the modern civilisations were first invented in China during Han dynasty (Romans were forced to write on fucking stones or parchment or whatever shit as they couldn't invent papers at all).

GDP of Han dynasty is said to be far much bigger than that of Roman empire.

Han dynasty was superior in military too considering that Huns who beat those Germanic "barbarians" making them mass-immigrate into Roman empire were said to be the same as Xiongnus who were horse-riding nomads living in the Northeast Asia that got beaten by Han dynasty being forced to move to the far west.

They also had a lot of exploration with those really big ships; however, they largely remained shut ins. The Chinese fleet of Zheng He (which was 100 years earlier and WAY more advanced than the Christopher Columbus ship) simply sat and rot because the Emperor didn't care about exploring the world and wanted China to have an isolationist policy.

Chinese civilisation was ethnically homogeneous (although most of its population in the north had been racially mongrelised by hundreds of years of rape and enslavement by hordes of different barbarians by the time of Tang dynasty), whereas Rome was a multicultural society (some of your Roman Emperors were not even white lel, Philip the Arab, Caracalla, Maxentius, Elagabalus, Gordian I, Aemilianus etc.)

Is there any other place in history where the indigenous population intentionally tried to create a multicultural society? Nope.

China's economy is hardly Communist, as soon as they lifted commie restrictions, millions were lifted out of poverty. China has lifted more people out of poverty in the last 40 years than the rest of the world has in all of human history.

China is based at managing their own country (authoritarian rule suits the Chinese population), but they can't keep their tendrils from the western world, they are immigrating en masse to the west and buying up all the property they can. They are just as bad as negroes, Muslims or spics, probably even worse because it is a lot harder to convince someone to deport their peaceful Chinese neighbour than a bunch of savages from the Middle East.

did you write all of that? be honest