Ok… heard of Kublai Khan? Part of the mongol empire circa 1200s preceding the colonial powers existence by a good 500-600 years… That was the Yuan Dynasty (in china) and they conquered a whole lot more than modern day china.

Now since Yuan, you’ve had Ming and Qing… neither of which were particularly aggressive outside of their borders… and Qing was of course the start of the Opium wars, where the colonial powers essentially raped china for all its resources.

With regard to your strange Naval quip. You should look up the Chinese treasure ship. (Ming dynasty)… predates the colonials naval power.

So which Chinese in particular would you like me to read about? Everything you said is factually incorrect. To a laughable degree. I recommend you watch Marco Polo on Netflix, it’d teach you something.

If you're getting your historical education from Netflix, maybe you're not the right person to berate others for theirs.

I don’t. Just suggesting that EVEN Netflix would prove OP points wrong.

I’ve got a major in Chinese History. Maybe get one of those too and come back and we can chat?

Naah, doesn't seem worth it, just for the sake of this discussion. ;-)

Sorry, must have missed the meaning of the "even", so the more charitable reading didn't occur to me.