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Hmm but most "native Chinese" (Han) dynasties were fully conquered by invaders from the north/northwest multiple times (I think they almost rotated in power). The long unification is caused by its unique culture, whoever conquered the Han race become Han eventually which inevitably will be overthrown by Han.

So I don't think it hash that much parallelisms to European history history

Not really, or I should say it's hard to get rid of. Every educated Chinese will learn an amazing amount of traditional culture (commonly referred as poem of Tang dynasty and the verse of Song dynasty LOL) and also many articles of Classical Chinese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese). Damn I could still recite many of them after years. It's mandatory and counts a significant portion in most exams. When one got intrigued by the traditional culture, nothing basically stops him from dig in the history.

When you have 1.5 - 2M mortgage which is super common among my friends in CA, a few months without paychecks is totally unacceptable.

I imagine a direct implementation of "western style" democracy in China will cause a huge human right criss. There's no evidence democracy could ever scale to 1.4B people with a great portion of them in poverty still

I always find it amusing, give all source code? Google's monorepo store billions of code. Good luck Chinese officials.

OMG, you are so disconnected... Chinese big tech (BAT) is much younger with tons of senior engineers coming back from FAANG. Their tech stack is very cutting edge and arguably better, e.g:

- (this is handling double 11 traffic! if you don't know what that means, a few X prime day traffic) https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/open-source-pouch-alibabas-...

- from BAIDU http://apollo.auto/

Wechat is a killer mobile app, no web red herring. look at FB's app, so awkward.

Disclaimer: I worked for one of FAANG and it's not that easy to adopt new things.