China seems to stagnate quickly, historically speaking, with technology. They got to a point were they believe (rightly so at some points in time) that they are on top of the social and technological heap and just stop. "If it wasn't written by an ancestor 1,000 years ago or more it is useless", sort of thinking. They stagnated worse than Europe (which instead of stagnating, regressed then climbed back up through the dirt...then stole stuff it couldn't figure out from the Muslim and Chinese cultures...then improved or repurposed everything they stole).
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