To: TCats
China is simply not some monolith populated with homogeneous peoples. No it's not. But, for about three thousand years it has had these groups under the control of one dynasty or another.
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
True. The Ch'in Dynasty did it but it has been a game of playing fragments off against each other ever since. The Info Age has made the balancing act that much more difficult.
10 posted on
03/22/2008 6:39:05 PM PDT by
TCats
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Not really. In fact Tibet has exerted control over China more often than the other way around.
History of Tibet.
26 posted on
03/23/2008 2:57:36 PM PDT by
TigersEye
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