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Chinese history is full of internal wars, rebellions, palace violence, natural calamities and unrest. The claim of thousands of years of peace is ridiculous. Tianxia all under heaven should be ruled by the emperor, including the barbarians … sorry, foreigners.
Why has an imperial China with a single supreme leader persevered for more than 2000 years? Why did no one write “Decline and fall of the Chinese empire”? In the US, we asked and answered, “what survived Gone with the Wind?” Same, too, in China. China as a libertarian heaven. Hint: If you don’t have traditions of civil society or individual autonomy, you can’t lose them …. The few. The proud. The literati. Semper fi.
