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China's excessively large labour pool has shaped geopolitics for most of recorded history. It's more a civilization thing than a communism thing.
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Chinese artisans produced goods found nowhere else, which political elites outside China were driven to monopolise, which meant trade routes to China were often the root of conflict. China pre-Yuan still had a very high level of control over its populace without high tech.