China Vietnam
If China controlled Vietnam for over 1,000 years, why are they still independent and distinct?
Since the fall of China’s first dynastic empire (Qin Dynasty) the Chinese conquered what is now Vietnam during the Han Dynasty in the 200BCs and ruled for over 1,000 years. Given this timeframe, one would expect the Chinese to totally assimilate them. Yet, Vietnam is independent today and the Vietnamese language remains intact. They only borrowed the benefits of Chinese civilization/culture. But, the Chinese had never made the attempt to eradicate and assimilate them totally. The northern part of Korea was also under the rule of the Han Dynasty for over 400 years and they too later got independent and threw off Chinese rule. This is proof that the Chinese never had desires to rule the world as envisioned in the collective Western physche and mind.
For the same reason China remained China after centuries of Mongol Rule.
the Chinese did not want to rule the world, they wanted to keep the northern barbarians, Tatars and Genghis’s Khan on the other side of their wall.
They had no desire to rule the world that I ever knew of. They only unified China from small fiefdoms in a series of wars that left the Emperor Chin the remaining sole ruler and unified China as one country.
Even though the Mongolians defeated them they still kept their beliefs and culture and so did the Vietnamese and Koreans. That is why they are independent and distinct even today. You can kill a person but not an idea.
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