TheQing were the first Chinese state to effectively control regions like Tibet,Xinjiang, Manchuria, and Mongolia, peripheral regions that were inhabited bypeople that had always harassed China. They were able to do this because of their dualnature as both a Chinese imperial bureaucratic state able to draw on agrarianrevenue, and as the leaders of a large northern tribal confederacy that wasable to assimilate Mongol tribes into their system. Gunpowder also aided theQing’scause, allowing them to negate the power of the steppe tribes.
TheQing’smasterful diplomacy was also part of its success. For example, the Qing ablyplayed Russia and Great Britain off one another during the Great Game.Neither of those two powers wanted the other to gain more territory in CentralAsia and were thus happy to led China keep most of its extensive empire as abuffer. Chinese influence also increased in Southeast Asia and Himalayan Asia to a greater degree than before during theQing Empire, as many states like Myanmar, Nepal, Chitral Valley (in Pakistantoday), and Siam became part of the Chinese system.
TheQing could have done better at focusing on threats from the sea—first the West, andthen Japan. On the whole, however, the Qing managed to lay the basis of China’s continued control into the modern era of the resources of much ofinner Asia, the Chinese equivalent of America’s wildwest.
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FayeFaye 12 hours ago
Lookaround the world, which country is not formed throughthe continued unifications with the neighboring tribes or kingdoms alongthe times. China is only one of the countries on earth that has gonethrough this normal process !
However,America, Australia, New Zealand etc are different. These Europeans wentthousands of miles to the kingdoms and tribes whom had nothing to do with theseEuropeans whatsoever, and these Europeans slaughtered the poor native peopleand stole their lands and resources.
放眼全球，哪个国家不是通过与邻近的部落和王国不断融合才形成的。中国只是正常走过这个流程的国家中的其中一个！可是跟美国，澳大利亚，新西兰等这些国家不同哇。这帮欧洲人万里迢迢地跑的那里，对那些王国和土著别的啥也没做，专对这群土著大开杀戒、窃取他们的资源。