Today's @bopinion post is about how poor countries started catching up to rich ones.
It looks like decolonization just took a few decades to start working.https://bloom.bg/2yKQWGQ
The Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, and partial colonization of China happened right around the time that the Industrial Revolution really accelerated.
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You think that that's what stopped the Chinese from keeping pace with Europe on development?
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That, civil war, and communism. Kept them back by about 1 century.
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Yes, but those are things they did to themselves, not colonialism
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Read "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom".
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