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Lionel Mandrake

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4. I agree that my sig line will be obsolete on Jan. 20.
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 01:58 PM
Nov 2016

On that day, Bush the Simple will be only the second worst.

As for relative power: there is no objective scale. Of course China is and was larger geographically, but there is room for more than one opinion about most of the categories you mentioned (scientific advancement, cultural persistence, etc.). What's undeniably true is that Eurocentric historians have paid too little attention to China.

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