The China buffer
Looking at the history of Asia, i notice that there are quite a few wars. Probably within the states of Asia as anywhere else there were wars to unify the country, but the wars between people speaking different languages are quite rare and between people that don't share common borders even scarcest
There are the wars between the the people of the Mekong river: the Thais, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. Not between the Thais and the Vietnamese as they don't share common borders, but there are so few. There are no recorded wars between people of what is called the South China sea (the countries of the Filipinos archipelago) and the people of the Asian continent either.
There are no traces of any Japanese invasion or Korean invasion of the Vietnamese territory as we can expect it.
As i compare with the European continent, i can notice the viking invasions, the wars of 100 years, the 30 years war and other countless wars between European people. These invasions has seen people from northern Europe settling in Italy. A Spanish rule in the Dutch was also created. It was not rare to see a German ruler in Russia or in England.
The empire of the middle the other name of what is now China may had made a kind of impenetrable territory for the neighboring countries that had to reinforce their borders with China instead of having views in other neighborhoods farther than China.
Looking at the history of Korea there were indeed countless conflicts with China, the nomadic people of north of China had also captured the Chinese throne several times but the Chinese culture has always remained no matter the unhappy events.
The Chinese empire had known also several epic wars from northern invaders or civil wars that seen a death toll noticeable. When we know that a civil war between the nobility in England had can partially explain the end of the invasion of France, we can think that the buffer role of China had given China and it northern neighbors a sponge role for the wars and who knows that should explain why we had never seen the sea invasions of Asian countries like we had seen from barbarian people in Europe.
There are the wars between the the people of the Mekong river: the Thais, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. Not between the Thais and the Vietnamese as they don't share common borders, but there are so few. There are no recorded wars between people of what is called the South China sea (the countries of the Filipinos archipelago) and the people of the Asian continent either.
There are no traces of any Japanese invasion or Korean invasion of the Vietnamese territory as we can expect it.
As i compare with the European continent, i can notice the viking invasions, the wars of 100 years, the 30 years war and other countless wars between European people. These invasions has seen people from northern Europe settling in Italy. A Spanish rule in the Dutch was also created. It was not rare to see a German ruler in Russia or in England.
The empire of the middle the other name of what is now China may had made a kind of impenetrable territory for the neighboring countries that had to reinforce their borders with China instead of having views in other neighborhoods farther than China.
Looking at the history of Korea there were indeed countless conflicts with China, the nomadic people of north of China had also captured the Chinese throne several times but the Chinese culture has always remained no matter the unhappy events.
The Chinese empire had known also several epic wars from northern invaders or civil wars that seen a death toll noticeable. When we know that a civil war between the nobility in England had can partially explain the end of the invasion of France, we can think that the buffer role of China had given China and it northern neighbors a sponge role for the wars and who knows that should explain why we had never seen the sea invasions of Asian countries like we had seen from barbarian people in Europe.
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