THE AMERICAN'S YES WE CAN TRAVEL BY GUNBOAT IN THE YANG-TSE OR YANGTZE RIVER
THE JAP'S
China had been always the richer, bigger, more civilized country.
A fast change in ideology (occidentalization) and all that changed: Japan gained the upper hand and used it really bad (atrociously, murderously, infamously) in the early 19TH AND 20th century against KOREANS RUSSIANS China and other countries THAT ARE AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN COLONIES in the Pacific rim – including yours SAYS THE
UNI-MORON - Pearl Harbour A AMERICAN COLONY IN HAWAII
Changes in economic destiny caused by ideological turns can be really fast. See what happened to Argentina when it adopted Peronism (a kind of socialistic populism BUT WITH LESS SOCIALISM AND MORE TEA PARTY) in the 1940s
"Scholars sometimes attribute the failure of China's foreign programs to Cixi's conservative attitude and old methods of thinking, and contend that Cixi would learn only so much from the foreigners, provided it did not infringe upon her own power. Under the pretext that a railway was too loud and would "disturb the Emperor's tombs," Cixi forbade its construction. When construction went ahead anyway in 1877 under Li Hongzhang's recommendation, Cixi asked that they be pulled by horse-drawn carts. Cixi was especially alarmed at the liberal thinking of people who had studied abroad, and saw that it posed a new threat to her power. In 1881, Cixi put a halt to sending children abroad to study, and withdrew her formerly open attitude towards foreigners."
"The rapid industrialization and modernization of Japan both allowed and required a massive increase in production and infrastructure. Japan built industries such as shipyards, iron smelters, and spinning mills, which were then sold to well-connected entrepreneurs. Consequently, domestic companies became consumers of Western technology and applied it to produce items that would be sold cheaply in the international market. With this, industrial zones grew enormously, and there was massive migration to industrializing centers from the countryside. Industrialization additionally went hand in hand with the development of a national railway system and modern communications."
Size of the merchant fleet
Year Number of steamships
1873 26
1894 169
1904 797
1913 1514
Length of train track
Year Track
(mi) (km)
1872 18 29
1883 240 390
1887 640 1,030
1894 2,100 3,400
1904 4,700 7,600
1914 7,100 11,400
A AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
SOUTH OR NORTH
BRAZIL IS AN AMERICAN CULTURAL COLONY
