China

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Muh Confucian isolationism.

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>>2635262
How does it feel to be forever in the shadow of this glorious empire and its descendants?

>>2635262
It did. A majority of modern china was never han land.

>>2635286

This.

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Its 'traditional borders' got there by repeatedly expanding. Their sphere of influence grew further due to their tributary system.

China didn't just show up one day with its current borders, I have no idea where people get this idea.

China constantly fought wars against their neighbors tho. The issue is that the surrounding areas were too different. The north is desert and empty steppe. The east is desert and mountains. The south is dense jungle.

>>2635262
What do you consider its "traditional borders"? China waxed and waned constantly over its millenia of existence. What you think of as its traditional borders today, only got there by expanding all the time until it became that big (though it had been bigger than this at times before).
China at its peak had expanded pretty much as much as was geographically feasible. No empire on earth ever lasted as long with as much territorial expanse as China had.

>>2635262
Source?

>>2635292
That needs to be updated with the nine-dash-line.

Call it Xi dynasty.

>>2635262
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou

They couldn't handle Wokous

>>2635262
It works out. They're going to rule the world.