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2012-11-16 12:16 6746936 Anonymous (china_specialec_97.jpg 1414x1116 256kB)
Why does China have such a large population?

1 min later 6746967 Anonymous
>>6746936 No selfcontrol

2 min later 6746973 Anonymous
>>6746936 Because they didn't colonise other countries and migrated there. They are doing it now though. If you count European diaspora there are as much Europeans as Chinese people in the world.

2 min later 6746980 Anonymous
A climate that's good for growing large numbers of staple foods like rice and wheat, combined with many rivers providing fresh water, and a landscape that's mostly open plains.

2 min later 6746988 Anonymous
There is no entertainment other than sex for poor stressful farmers

3 min later 6746993 Anonymous (image.jpg 263x360 33kB)
>>6746936 Because from the 1940's on the population was encouraged to breed to make china more powerful and harder to conquer. Mao was fuckin crazy, but in this regard he was right. I wouldn't want to invade china.

3 min later 6747003 Anonymous
>>6746973 no there isn't

4 min later 6747010 Anonymous
Cultural difference. Western culture focuses on the betterment of the individual, eastern culture on the betterment of the family.

4 min later 6747013 Anonymous
>>6746993 Guess the chairman knew what's what. (not really)

5 min later 6747026 Anonymous
>>6746993 That's wrong you fucking retard. China has been the most populous part of the world for at least 1000 years.

6 min later 6747060 Anonymous
>>6747013 He knew China had enemies, the USSR in particular. The only advantage they had over the Russians was pure numbers. They tried to increase that advantage.

8 min later 6747079 Anonymous
China lost half of their population under Mongol rule and still allegedly had the highest population in the world they just like making babies

9 min later 6747098 Anonymous
>>6747026 Of course. Doesn't mean they didn't tell the people to keep multiplying in large numbers. Also the Indian subcontinent has been the most populated area on earth historically until the 20th century.

10 min later 6747125 Anonymous
>>6747026 More like 2000.

11 min later 6747138 Anonymous (1352338505000.gif 169x168 1026kB)
>>6747060 you sir, reek of poo.

11 min later 6747141 Anonymous
>>6747098 India still has more people than North America

14 min later 6747181 Anonymous
They like too fuck.

14 min later 6747197 Anonymous
>>6747138 You know that after Stalin died that the two biggest commie countries didn't really see eye to eye right? The Chinese were very wary of the Soviet Union.

16 min later 6747221 Anonymous
>>6747141 Yep. And with Chinese birth rate slowing dramatically, India is set to surpass China in population in a decade or two.

18 min later 6747249 Anonymous
>>6747221 >India is set to surpass China in population in a decade or two. This won't end well

22 min later 6747301 Anonymous
What's interesting to see is that if you look at some Chinese battles from 300BC or something, the scale of some of them are humongous; think 700,000 soldiers v 800,000 soldiers in one battle. The largest armies in Europe at the time were only like 40,000 at the most.

26 min later 6747349 Anonymous
>>6747301 The Persians could muster huge armies, but they were cumbersome and were mostly levies. Plus Chinese agriculture was ahead of the west at the time, plus the general fertility of the land. You need more modern tools than wooden plows and slash and burn farming to make European farmland extremely productive.

28 min later 6747371 Anonymous
>>6746936 Due to the missing healthcare system, the parents had to sustain their health when they age and pass their wealth to as much as possible out of their family. (similar to the middle age) ...also to strengthen their family and spread their families blood

28 min later 6747372 Anonymous
>>6747249 1 billion vs 1 billion, who will win?

29 min later 6747388 Anonymous
>>6747372 The more homogeneous one (Yes, you know which one)

29 min later 6747390 Anonymous
>>6747349 The Persian invasion of Greece was their greatest error, losing 2 million strong army to about 60 000 really crippled them.

41 min later 6747552 Anonymous
2000 years of continuous civilization and alot of space to grow crops. It's pretty impressive that they've got as large of a population these days despite being the punching bag of the 20th century.

41 min later 6747563 Anonymous
>>6747552 it was really only half of the century

52 min later 6747713 Anonymous (9a.jpg 350x300 36kB)
>>6747372

1 hours later 6748055 Anonymous
>>6746988 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=357_1352696674

1 hours later 6748220 Anonymous (militarychina.jpg 918x681 391kB)
>>6747372 China, obviously.

11 hours later 6752917 ThatOne台灣Anon
Because the whole country was based on peasant ideology which meant having tons of male children to do slave labor in the fields.

11 hours later 6753066 Anonymous (1101-chinaeurope_full_600.jpg 600x400 27kB)
Yellow and Yatzhee rivers. Two of the most fertile areas in the entire planet. Meanwhile the Indian The Ganges River Basin is the most agriculturally productive in the entire world.

12 hours later 6753119 Anonymous
why is the sky blue?

12 hours later 6753153 Anonymous
>>6753066 Finally someone with sense. Although the population exploded since the founding of the Peoples' Republic. Constant famine used to keep the population low but improved management and industrialisation under the Communists allowed people to live in unprecedented prosperity, inevitably leading to a population explosion.

12 hours later 6753157 Anonymous
>>6747372 The Himalayan Mountains. Enjoy your mountain of corpses.

12 hours later 6753170 Anonymous
They're all concentrated along the coastline also.

12 hours later 6753201 Anonymous
>>6753170 >They're all concentrated along the coastline also. Henan is the most populous Chinese province and is not on the coast...

12 hours later 6753210 Anonymous
>>6753153 You're missing the part where tens of millions of people starved to death because of Mao's retarded policies.

12 hours later 6753294 Anonymous
>>6753210 You are missing the point that starvation was common throughout Chinese history. They didn't starve because of government policy from 1949 and even though the policy was excellent it couldn't magically provide for everyone immediately which is why food shortage was a common issue until the 70s. After all, there is no magic wand to change backwards peasant agriculture into modern mechanised agriculture over night. Also try doing this while the population booms precisely because of the aforementioned policy. Even if we pretended you were right for the sake of argument, there is no arguing with empirical evidence that China's population exploded since 1949. So your point is utterly moot. Please go back to drinking now Finland.

12 hours later 6753360 Anonymous
the white man introduced modern farming techniques... big mistake

12 hours later 6753370 Anonymous
>>6753294 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward >get people to melt down their farming equipment to produce a shitty, unusable mess of iron >political officers massively exaggerate production figures, government confiscates all the grain >policy not responsible for the famine deaths And let's not even get into all the Cultural Revolution purges. The fact that they eventually got their shit together doesn't change that all of China would have been a hell of a lot better off without this bullshit. A non-Red government could have done just as good a job, probably a better one. The whole country was a backwards shithole when Mao took over, the only place they could go was up, but he probably held them back by decades.

12 hours later 6753389 Anonymous
>chinks have a shy conservative attitude to sex >massive population note that there are many different ethnicities living in china, similar to differences between various european peoples. Also note that china was named after a kingdom within china

12 hours later 6753412 Anonymous
>>6747301 all the more glory when the 40,000 europeans defeat it

12 hours later 6753451 Anonymous
>>6753370 I shouldn't be surprised that a Fin took such offense to the truth. That's alright, the Chinese are too busy succeeding to listen to your bitching.

12 hours later 6753488 Anonymous (pop12.png 710x419 180kB)
they've always had a big population.

12 hours later 6753567 Anonymous
>>6753451 >me taking offense >implying Finns in general give a shit about Chinese history Seriously? Are you a Chinese-Australian? Is that why you're getting so upset about this? Look, even Chinese historians acknowledge that the Great Leap Forward was fucking awful. This book was written WITHIN the PRC. The party banned it there because MUH GREAT LEADER, but they didn't impede it in any other way. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374277931/

12 hours later 6753607 Anonymous (1291469259277.jpg 594x412 56kB)
>>6753567 >amount of rage in Finnish guy's posts >pic related

12 hours later 6753636 Anonymous
>>6753607 >Australia in charge of recognizing anger I can only assume you're trolling. No worries, I have nothing more to say on the subject.

12 hours later 6753671 Anonymous
>>6753636 Good because the little you said was so blatantly bullshit that my bullshit detector broke, causing the needle to fly off and stab my dog. You will pay for that Finfag.

12 hours later 6753684 Anonymous (Askia Songhai CIV5.jpg 1920x1080 936kB)
>>6746936 Because rice agriculture can be done on a family basis on very little land. This, combined with the fact that rice is a soft grain (that does not need hard milling) compared to European/Middle Eastern wheat (which requires hard milling) makes it easy for each and every family to have access to the technology required to open the weak rice plant.

12 hours later 6753713 Anonymous
>>6747372 Well that depends on when they fight. The indians will have the upper hand if they fight at night. It will be pretty even if it's during the day though.

12 hours later 6753728 Anonymous
>>6753671 You realize he's 100% right though, right?

12 hours later 6753732 Anonymous
>>6753684 Civ 2 > 4 > 3 > 1 > 5. I didn't like 5.

12 hours later 6753744 Anonymous
Chinese expats are so fucking annoying.

13 hours later 6753793 Anonymous
>>6753732 pretty much

13 hours later 6754013 Anonymous
>>6753671 >lists facts and reasoning yeah he was full of shit and so mad, you really got him there.

15 hours later 6754860 Anonymous
Chinese agriculture was extremely productive and efficient. Hence it was easy to support so many people. But the high productivity of agriculture is believed by some to have hindered any potential technological leap in a way Europe went, because mechanization did not seem a pressing need amid such plentiful albeit primitive lifestyles.

15 hours later 6754874 Anonymous
>>6753732 >not liking Civ 5 Did you get the Gods and Kings expanision?

15 hours later 6755003 Anonymous
There're no reason. There have been so many people since 4000 years ago. It's natural. lol

15 hours later 6755099 Anonymous
>>6753732 Civ 5 is good though. No horrible music like in 4 and the mods are easy to install.

15 hours later 6755270 Anonymous
>>6747003 Yes there are.

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