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Re << do you think world dominance by china will be THE teotwawki? >>
No, I do not. TeoTwawKi should mark the end of what we know, but not necessarily the start of anything we might understand. Between TeoTwawKi, say 2026, comes the Darkest Interregnum, that which is only tee-ed up later, say 2032. What happens in between? Unclear to me.
As to China dominance, I have doubts … because China, historically speaking, was never ever about dominance, but about exchange and trade, should one generalize, and never ever about ethnic concentrations in camps (invented by the British) and about whatever happened in ‘new worlds’ that different folks put different colored lens to see, but about Chinatowns, i.e. places to trade.
Admiral Zheng He had the ships to conquer, but had neither inclination nor mandate. He did get involved w/ one conflict, between the Tamils and whomever of Sri Lanka. I intend to find out what he had to note on the matter.
in my view it was a shame that the ming dynasty, having tee-ed up admiral zheng he en.wikipedia.org (sinbad to those who knew him as such), then deliberately decided to stop at the cusp of a new age, thus enabling hundreds of years of barbarism, etc etc
a similar deliberate mistake must be avoided this round should we as a species wish to evolve to the next level faster
i have pointed out to the doc that he forgot to mention that the world would arguably be better had the admiral zheng lived longer than he had and his emperor not stopped the age of exploration under prime directive of non-interference
The Chinese language programs come at Zheng He from slightly different angles, and more history based on documents etc
