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Bjoern Ognibeni's avatar

The chart with 2,000 years of economic history looks much more compelling when the x-axis shows the 2,000 years on the same scale. It could even show 1 or 2 thousand years more.

The core message of this charts is not the "century of humiliation," but that India and China ruled the world economy for thousands of years. No one else ever came close. And the current situation, which we see as the natural order of things, is not as natural as we in the West think.

A fact that 99% of people here in the "developed world" are ignorant of.

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Francois Faures's avatar

One more of your brilliant articles. Thank you. Do you think there might be a parallel to be drawn between the opium smuggling to China and the opioid crisis in the USA today and the possible role of China in this trade?

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