Japan has accused China of stealing their Shinkansen technology. I have seen articles where China is accused of stealing Japanese and Western European high speed rail technologu.
I kinda disagree. The early Qing wasn't bad at all. They had decent early emporers. The first three were good. After that rot and bureaucracy set in. Then they got insular which is an East Asian trait.
They are like north Korea. They just lie and are crazy like a fox about it. The Japanese ajese clearly stole high speed rail from Confusion ideals. So China rediscovered it and started using it again. It's no big deal
Chinese strategy goes like this:
Yep. That's China summed up perfectly.
^ Post of the month so far
So basically... they're Republicans.
Yes that is true, Saladin's army ended up overthrowing his dynasty and creating the Mamluk sultanate which is a quintessential example of the kind of Turkic ruling class I was talking about and they do predate the Mongol conquests. But consider that after the Mongol conquests many Turkic tribes from the East were driven Westward and their descendants founded the empires that dominated the Muslim world til the era of colonialism; Ottomans were a Turkic tribe that were actually around during the Mongol conquests and the Mughal Empire was founded by a descendant of Ghengis and Tamerlane. Even the Safavid Empire was established on the basis of the strength of an Uzbek tribal confederation
Could be true but I also think that nationalist historians are very prone to blaming the problems of their nations on the precursor empires and states that ruled them. You see that with the Arab nationalist historians of the early and mid 20th century but in the end their nationalist projects have mostly been failures and I'd bet the Middle East would've been far better off as a confederation under continued Ottoman control instead of fractured into a dozen fragile, artificial states.
And. It just that, they bought a coal excavator company for 700million and wrote off 86% of it, due to accounting fraud. Can't trust them.
This. So many instances of these blatant thefts. Why bother? Also for most companies z China isn't even profitable. Or if it is, the margins are razor thin
And the problem for a lot of small countries in Asia and Africa is access to Western and Japanese being restricted by their governments in favor of Chinese goods because the corrupt officials of these governments are indebted to China.
