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Ming and Qing trade restriction reflects a Chinese priority for internal stability over wealth and prosperity.
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Internal Stability
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He defines the Middle Kingdom impulse as concern for China's own internal stability, not an inherent desire to rule the rest of the world.
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"...the rest of the world. All we care about is the internal stability of China, because historically, and this is very important, is that..."
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"And so rebellions against the government are very commonplace. And so your entire state apparatus is structured to ensure that local rebellions don't arise...."
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"...will continue this policy as well. For China, the priority is internal stability rather than wealth and prosperity."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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