I mean chrome is not responsible for whatever the shit some websites host.

Just saying that damascus swords are middle eastern. Chinese steel were insanely good too. They had steel and chrome centuries and millenia earlier than others.

Modern China started late bc of civil wars but chinese culture including confucius was always about educating until you can do well in imperial exams, so you can serve the country.

China is pretty poor individually. Its the sum. India is simply poor entirely outside of some billionaires

Japan basically got the chance to be something bc Qing Dynasty refused to work with Imperialists colonists. The americans and portugues would have loved to be on China instead of the shitty Japan. Even thailand would have been mlre interesting to colonialists.

A major mistake that haunts the entire region to this day.