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No competition.

They had "hot weapons" which are janky early cannons. Didn't really need to invest in developing it further because they were not often fighting...

They actually did: the Ming dynasty treasure voyages in the 15th century. Those lasted about 30 years and then stopped because it was too...

China had a lot of good things going for it, and a lot of regressive things. They invented things sure, but it wasn't like they wanted the...

The guy who conquered China and thought mercury would make him immortal had the autism of ten thousand Chris Chans, as befits the son of heaven.

To be fair china did made the first guns wich were more akin to hand cannons, Europeans refined the model and the rest is history.

What? Yes they did. They were blasting each other with cannons in the 13th century. Europeans invented the matchlock, not the gun.

centralized bureaucracy is a hell of a drug