Beijing 1991 GDP almost at par with africa

>>74901851

Needs more plants

>>74901851
how did shina become successful?

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>>74901914
japan

>>74901939
Gee, I wonder if all of this is really because all of east asia are a bunch of spiteful grudgebearers or perhaps it has something to do with Japan's ongoing extenuation if not outright denial of its warcrimes.

Even if you were to ignore all of that, the logic in the article undermines its own argument because you can just as easily turn that around and credit Tang dynasty China for bringing culture and written language to the barbarians of Wa.

>>74901914
China has always been "successful"
You have to fuck it up really hard to not have china be wealthy

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>>74901939
>"Hey, we might have raped and killed your entire family buy that railway we built sure is swank huh? Make sure you tell your kids and grandkids about it."

>>74902099
top kek
sui&tang dynasty were also founded by xianbei which was one of those "barbarians"

>>74902182
also, over 70% of foreign aids china ever got is from japan, not to mention countless technology transfers

>>74902223
I was using dynasty as a convenient time frame rather than having to look up a range of years. But if you really want to press that line then you can tell me just how much of Japanese culture is mongolian in origin.

>>74901851
Looks better than endless mega commieblocks that are so abundant in china now

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>>74901939
Good job japan

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Shanghai


Future capital of the world

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>>74902429
like i suggested above, "chinese culture" wasn't invented or cultivated by a single entity. the quintessence of china is all about an agglomeration of peoples, stuff and cultures from throughout eastern eurasia, which the PRC (the primary beneficiary of modern japan) can't take all the credit for. and above all, those ancient shits don't negate the fact that modern china benefitted from japan at all. no matter how great ancient china was, without japan, modern asia as the current form wouldn't have existed, as it was the past glory that hindered china from modernization and adaptation to reality. japan's pretty much the messiah of asia.

>>74902223
楊堅 and 李淵 are not Xianbei people. They are Han Chinese

Most of those neighborhoods are gone, now. It's kind of sad, lost a lot of traditional, historical architecture with them. Nowadays 90% of things look traditional in Beijing are visibly modern constructions if you look at them for more than two seconds.

>>74901939
>>74902223
>>74903117
Ditto USA and Japan. Without American gunboats opening Japan up, rebuilding its military-industrial feudal society after WW2, and transferring its capital and technology, Japan would be some Thailand-tier backwater. America is pretty much the messiah of asia.

>>74903327

come home yellow man

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>>74903327
lmao
it can easily be refuted by bringing up the philippines, which was directly ruled by the US for a half century.
plus, a japan holding the expansion in ww2 would have been a hyper power, which is why america took advantage of the opportunity to gang up against the formidable opponent in the first place.

>>74903452
Yes but putting the whole country under economic subjugation after WW2 won't help improve the Philippines.

>>74903452
>it can easily be refuted by bringing up the philippines, which was directly ruled by the US for a half century.
The Philippines was the pearl of Asia when it was under direct American control.

>>74903452

What did the US even want in that part of the world? Did it ever find the oil in the shoals?

>>74903559
if the greater east asian co-prosperity sphere imperial japan envisaged was established, it would made up like a third of world population and be the largest economic sphere or union. it's funny to see modern china is trying to establish a similar thing.