Answer:
It Isolated China.
Step-by-step explanation:
Because of its geography, the only way China’s trying to reach major power like the west is via vast deserts or vast ocean. China however has been in touch with its neighbours like Japan and Korea. China has been set physically isolated from any major powers in the world apart from its East Asian buddies.
The other reason is because the Chinese don’t need trade goods from the outside world, they are capable of creating and innovating amazing things on their own, outside world needs Chinese good but the Chinese aren’t fond of having Europeans’ goods. Despite the failing Qing’s rule, China’s economy is completely self sufficient even until the Opium wars, when China was forced to open its market to the world by terribly unethical ways.
Chinese have been able to overthrow corrupted emperors and establish a new dynasty for themselves which typically will reach the peak of prosperity eventually, the most notable ones are Qin ( for the first time, rival Chinese states are united ), Han, Sui, Tang, and Ming dynasties (Ming’s ocean fleet was the largest in the world and had defeated the Portuguese before, it’s a shame that the emperor though that spending on voyages is a waste and shut the country, making China eventually being unable to catch up the industrial revolution in the west)
China has been the most advanced nation and the centre of the world for a long time, other civilisations are happy to trade with China, and China had been profusely praised by Europeans voyagers before for its efficiency in stabilising the country in every aspects, and now they are competing with the world’s largest economy !!! The world’s gonna taste the not-isolated-anymore China.
Thank you,
Eddie