No one’s century

There are lessons from history as far as China‘s global ambitions are concerned. China invented all of the technologies necessary to have the industrial revolution around 800 years before it occurred in Europe. But China did not have the right ideologies. It rejected the very technologies that could have given it world domination. New technology was perceived as a threat, not an opportunity. It ignored the canonical texts, those inspired by Confucius, which contained the solution to most problems