IF INEVITABLE THAT CHINA WOULD RECOVER ITS HISTORIC WEIGHT THEN INEVITABLE IN THE 18TH C TOO!

Thus Western imperialism is technically innocent of holding China back from its inevitable historic role, and Western white males are absolved of their villainous role in colonialism of color, at least with respect to yellow China. 

In fact, one Whig argument may run that the West was merely marginally instrumental in bringing China's nevertheless inevitable greatness into fruition in the 20th Century.

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