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China is "rising"?

When they say China is "rising," ask them one question.
Rising from what?
China had a civil service examination system while Europe was still in feudal darkness.
It had movable type, paper money, and navigational compasses centuries before the West.
It fed the largest population on earth through administrative systems of extraordinary complexity.

China did not rise.
China was interrupted.
By opium. By gunboats. By the specific violence of the 19th century, when Western powers arrived and called their looting a "civilizing mission."
What the West calls China’s rise is simply China’s return.
The anxiety in Western commentary is not about the future.
It is about what the return implies about who was actually barbaric during the interruption.
Sony Thăng, @nxt888