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LoL. There were exactly two political groups/parties to blame for the collapse of Northen Song dynasty and the following stagnation of everything in China.

They were Yuanyou(元佑党人) the reformists, and Yuanfeng(元丰党人) the conservatives.

Damn.

Now, there is a similar case in US.

I hope this time, politicians can do much better than ruin all good things.

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So modern Chinese consider their country to have been stagnant during the entirety of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties? I've read a number of Western books about Qing-era China trying to understand the same questions the linked article discusses - why China doesn't already rule the world. The way things are presented, the Qing rulers and court just seem to be generally incompetent and isolated from their contemporary reality.

So within China the understanding is that the problems go back to before the Qing?

Net Neutrality, Copyrights, Patents, sensible immigration laws, friendliness to entrepreneurship.

No. We're screwed too.

I may have not been clear that I think the US is failing badly at handling all of those things, and it will cost us in the long run.

If what I was saying was clear, and you still disagree, then by all means down-vote it.

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