• TwinTusks@bitforged.space
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    6 months ago

    How can China be of its current size without invading anyone? When it started, it was just a small patch in central Henan area.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      This pedantry is ridiculous, wrong, and annoying. The Han ethnic group that was in a relatively small patch of land ~4,000 years ago is hardly the same thing as the contemporary Westphalian sovereign state known as People’s Republic of China, which formed less than a hundred years ago and comprises many ethnicities.