...which is that China was a (mostly) stable, unified, empire--whereas Europe was in the middle of cultural/political turmoil
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I'll futz a bit with "shun force" Britain is the ultimate commerce syndrome place and they used force extremely effectively
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it's entirely possible to mix these syndromes, at the expense of their integrity and function
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Britain was more effective at commerce because they used force so well
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in the 18thc India and China had the most extensive textile industries in the world, and these were gutted in the 19thc because they
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were flooded with cheap British manufacturing. Because they were colonized or semi-colonized, they could not enforce tariffs to
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protect their industries long enough to upgrade them to near-British levels. The gutting freed up labor that colonizer a could use
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