Zheng He just sailed along trade routes merchants had already sailed for centuries. As an example of Chinese civilized excellence it might as well be the "university" of Timbuctu or great Zimbabwe. Civilization wouldn't collapse, except in Africa, however civilization will forever lose its spark, it will forever be hordes of low IQ ruled by oriental despots to whom the most horrific torture and throwing people into an abject state of terror is the normal method of control.

1 Leonardo/Galileo/Newton was worth 10000 Zheng Hes, and most men like Zheng He were tortured to death for coming up with a new idea, as was the custom in China with its confucian obsession with "harmony". An analogy might be a nerd from the chess club trying to convince chad from the football team to study calculus with him and pass his finals. It's fucking not happening.

With whites gone China will stagnate again, they will still have modern technology, it's too useful to go away, but they won't bother making investments or pioneering scientific research. Just scam each other like jeets until pollution and resource depletion sets them back.

Europe was full of reasonable intelligent white men who set about cooperating and advancing science, but people like this are completely outnumbered in east asia. To them everything is a hierarchy, in Japan or China you have to let your boss plagiarize all your work and take credit, the guy who invented the blue LED light had to do this. Whereas in the west such things are considered deeply immoral, in asia the scientist is considered stupid for getting conned and kicked into the dirt. Let's not start on China's patent theft. Their economy still depends on stealing shit from the west just like in communist days.

Under KMT rule China would be almost decent

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Very sad Chinks too ashamed to show real flag