There once was an empire called the Ming Dynasty. Worried about border “invasions,” it poured resources into building a massive wall to keep nomads out. It had once prospered through maritime trade, but its rulers, fearing the disorder of open exchange, turned inward—shutting ports, silencing curiosity, and stifling innovation. The empire didn’t fall overnight, but it quietly slipped into irrelevance.

Centuries later, in a different corner of the world, a powerful nation began to flirt with familiar instincts: raising walls, taxing trade, distrusting the foreign, and praising the purity of isolation.

Surely it’s just coincidence.
After all, no one would knowingly rehearse history’s more tragic scripts.

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by RiseNo7374

4 comments

  1. The mongols being equivalent to the cartel in this scenario puts Pocahontas and Mulan in an awkward position

  2. I hate when you put border invasion in quotation as if it is comparable to cartel violence. You should google Tumu crisis and the subsequent Battle of Beijing to put everything in prospective. 5 years after Zheng He’s expedition and the emperor was captured and whole country nearly fall to the Oirat invasion and you wonder why they rather spend the money to repair the Great Wall instead of oversea pet project?

    This comic is laughably bad and its ignorance of history is showing. Ming was an international economic powerhouse and its decline was more or less due to its reliance of Mexican silver peso. Ming economy tanked because the silver ran out from British-Spanish conflict. It collapsed because of the Little Ice Age and it was bankrupted by its victory in the Imjin War against the Japanese. You could literally write a myriad of reasons why it collapsed and its so called “isolation” is mere a footnote.

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