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Now I know you are lying! The Qing dynasty was far larger than China is today; in fact, it included Bhutan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_

Now I know you are lying! The Qing dynasty was far larger than China is today; in fact, it included Bhutan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_dynasty_18c_Chinese.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_dynasty_...

free_rms 6y ago
They're not lying, most likely, just uninformed. Most Americans know literally dick-all about Chinese history and substitute a combination of Cold War and WWII history where we're the good guys and the antagonists are the bad guys.
bobbyz 6y ago
DAMN! What a beautiful curb your ____ moment! The British did more empire building in 2-3 hundred years than the Chinese did in a millennium!
dang 6y ago
Please stop breaking the site guidelines. You've done it a lot, we've asked you repeatedly not to, and I do not want to have to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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