This is true of the US too. How desperate must the Trumpies be?

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17. They definitely lagged behind when it came to the industrial revolution.

And democracy. But that doesn't mean it was because they lacked faith in the religious or non religious sense. You can make that argument of course, but that discounts any geographical, societal and historical evidence for something that has no evidence. Just the war of China and Japan discounts that. All the dynasties they had, their expansion from western china to eastern china. Their history like I said is one of the longest ones there are and its not full of people sitting around doing nothing. They are the second largest country by landmass. That says everything in itself.