This has been baffling me, what is it about China that allows them to keep bouncing back to a top three power?
You have other major powers that went to the top for a while, then after getting BTFO they just disappear from relevance. Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Spanish, Dutch, French, British, etc., most great powers have one or two turns at being in the top three, and then drop out and never rise to the top again.
But somehow despite getting BTFO countless times throughout history, China just keeps rebounding and becoming a major power again a few centuries later. If you think about how much blood has been spilled and damage done to China from the endless infighting and civil war, plus famines and disasters, and then add in the millions upon millions slaughtered by invaders like the Mongols and the shitfest that was the century of humiliation it's astounding how a country with such a terrible KDA can still be not only kicking but also back near the top yet again.
Jose Carter
They're massive and they word hard?
Michael Murphy
Numbers my friend. Look anywhere in history and anywhere in nature. Its the key to survivability.
Connor Jones
>Brazil
Logan Myers
There's no problem that cant be solved by throwing literally billions of beaten down worker drones at it
Adrian Rogers
They've always historically been the dominant world power in economy, science, philosophy, trade, wtv right up until the industrial revolution Manchu retardation and communism held them back for ages but they're now only returning to their usual place
Oliver Richardson
Working hard isn't the exclusive domain of the Chinese.
They have two major river systems, plus rice which can deliver two harvests a year, that basically put agriculture on easymode and allows for a huge population to throw at everything, plus the north of China is a big plain that makes uniting it much easier than Europe and its shitloads of natural barriers.
Jace Rogers
>India >Russia
Landon Rodriguez
I think the key lies in the homogenisation of their culture into the encompassing Han culture/religion/language.
A lot of those empires that you mention have or have had no chance to rebound as it were, because they usually splintered into discreet, separate political unions that grew culturally apart.
