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Thread: Will China become the No.1 innovative nation in the world 10 years later?
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[quote=GUEST12496,248991]"Chinese is too broad of a term, I would guess that any real innovation that occurred in China's history could be attributed to copying Indians, Tibetans, Mongolians (..the Yuan dynasty anyone?), the Muslims (as represented by the Uyghrs and Hui minority peoples) or the Manchus (Qing dynasty anyone?). And as a copy, inferior to the original, thus perhaps losing effectiveness. And if something actually was innovated, when it comes to function, it falls flat. Let's examine this "gunpowder" example that keeps popping up. The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks (in order to scare away bad luck producing ghosts), whereas the western world used gunpowder just as that, as a military technology." Chines people copied Mongolian, Indian and Tibetans? If Chinese technology is inferior copy of the others why are the Chinese doing better than all the other mention civilizations since we "copied" their superior technology. If you look at architecture of Tibetans, Mongolians, Japanese, Koreans and some SE nations they share the East Asian (originating from China) look. While I cant say the same thing about the Taj Mahal in India (and did India built anything in comparison to the Forbidden palace, Great Wall, Terracotta warriors, Summer Palace or Junk ships?). As for the Chinese not using Gunpowder for military purposes, I'm afraid your wrong again. The Song dynasty (around 12th century; even before Europeans) used bombs on Junk ships and catapults and trebuchets. Part of the reason why the Mongols stopped their advance into Western Europe was because they lacked Chinese sappers and engineers who used bombs to level walls. Also on the great wall the Imperial troops used bombs on the great wall to repel Mongol incursions.[/quote]
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