i'm not advocating for the chinese supremacy, however they did expand their land and managed to keep it for 3000 years. china, like russia, is an empire that survived and now it's not even considered an empire but a legit country. british and other overseas empires eventually disappeared and left either enemies or immigrants who are now taking over. it backfired badly so you could raise an argument which one was a smarter thing to do. > brave well british, french, portuguese empires were more about subjugating massively underequipped spear chuckers who were armed so bad they were practically unarmed so not much bravery there. americans were also getting annihilated even though they had those single bullet guns, before they came up with colts and winchesters.
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