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Life expectancy in China was just 32 in the year 1850, and over the course of the next 170 years, it is expected to more than double to 76.6 years in 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041350/life-expectancy-china-all-time/

Since the British cultivated opium in India and sold it to China, which triggered the Opium Wars, the life expectancy of China was declined.

Between 1850 and 1950, the Taiping Rebellion and Dungan Revolt in the nineteenth century did reduce life expectancy by a few years.

The Chinese Civil War and Second World War in the first half of the twentieth century. In the second half of the 1900s, Chinese life expectancy increased greatly, as the country became more industrialized and the standard of living increased.

Comparison of life expectancy through years - USA vs CHINA

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1bwvcjy/comparison of life expectancy

Since 2013, the life expectancy of United Sates is in the state of decline.

Look at the West dehumanized world today, especially the uncontrollable mess of the manic mad of the US and the democracies; they are all the vivid evidence that democracy is a casino for beasts make living by political gamling.

Lifespan is closely related to living standards, nutritional levels, and wars. It differs from the rich of China's repeated resurgences by creation of hard working under rational governance. The rich of the West come from the inhuman plunders by military force.

The rich of democracies come from the plunders by military force

The rich of democracies does not come from the creation of wealth brought from the governance of democray, but from the inhuman plunders by military force. For instance; during the First Sino-Japanese War, China compensated 230 million taels of silver to Japanese; later, paid 980 million taels of silver to Eight-Nation Alliance, plus 20 million taels to the church, for a total of 1 billion taels. In the Second Opium War 1860, French and British troops looted the imperial collections and then looted, and burnt Old Summer Palace of China.

In 2021, Prof Jason Hickel published Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange,1960–2018, indicates that the drain from the South remains a significant feature of the world economy in the post-colonial era; rich countries continue to rely on imperial forms of appropriation to sustain their high levels of income and consumption.

“Imperial powers finally withdrew most of their flags; armies from the South in the mid-20th century. But the following decades, economists and historians associated with dependency theory argued that the underlying pattern of colonial appropriation remained in place and continued to define the global economy. But the imperialism has never ended, they argued – it just changed form.”

“They were right. The research demonstrates that rich countries continue to rely on a large net appropriation from the global South, including tens of billions of tonnes of raw materials and hundreds of billions of hours of human labour per year – embodied not only in primary commodities,but also in high-tech industrial goods; smartphones, laptops, computer chips, cars, which over the past decades have come to be overwhelmingly manufactured in the South.”

2023, a report said that for decades, the US and Western countries sought to have China as consumer in a single economy led by the West. Washington continued to pressure China with investment restriction and export ban, but China reoriented its major economy to the developing world. In the autumn of 2022, China reached a milestone of trade with developing countries exceeded the combined trade with the US, Europe, Japan; made a Death Bell to the West.

Today, the conflict on the world is mainly stemmed from European loot-killing made Western individualistic culture based civilization dying struggles to fight against that China's Confucian collectivistic culture based civilization.

The individualistic civilization benefits only the self at the expense of others. Now it has been abandoned by the world countries and turn to collectivistic civilization for common prosperity. Chine is merging the world by culture.

As China mediated the restoration of diplomatic relation between Saudi Arabia and Iran at the ambassadorial level, a wave of "great reconciliation" appeared in the hostile countries in the Middle East. The reconciled enemy countries checked their accounts and reflected on the history of events found that many events that caused conflict were deliberately created by foereihn countries.

The US David Goldman sighed that: "the United States has tended to look at these places (global south) as baggage;we don't take them seriously. But people of China take them seriously and the longest biggest challenge to the U.S. influence in the world is China's ability to integrate billions of marginalized people into the world economy; help them going from making $2 a day which is misery and degradation to the $10- 15 per day; which is the beginning of dignity."

The West has vever developed its own civilization

In China, during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC), the accumulation of Chinese characters approximately 3,000 and reached written expression. The characters wrote on the bamboo slips to string them together with rope facilitating portability for communication, entered the golden age of civilization development.

Thanks to the later invention of papermaking, a wealth of historical records were preserved on bamboo slips, which were then unearthed, allowing us to understand historical facts.

The Art of War, around 515-512 BC.

The proof of the civilization of China was based on the written records and archaeological discoveries, but Western civilization has neither written records nor archaeological evidence. French classical scholar, Jean Hardouin (1646–1729) who argued that a 14th century conspiracy forged practically all literature traditionally believed to have been written before that era. He also denied the genuineness of most ancient works of art, coins, and inscriptions.

Anatoly Fomenko (1945-), is a Soviet and Russian professor of Mathematics. He is one of the authors of a concept that manipulates historical chronology of the New Chronology. He asserts that all of ancient history (Greece, Rome, and Egypt) merely a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages, and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th- and 18th-century Jesuits. He argued that since no artifacts dating back to before 10th century have been found in Russia, so the world history could not possibly predate the 10th century.

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson in 2012 book Civilization: The West and the Rest indicated: In 600 years ago, Western Europe was a miserable poor place, ravaged by war and plague. During 16 century, learnt mathematics, astronomy, technology and creativity from China and developed six killer apps: competition, science, law, medicine, consumerism, and work ethic, and then the West came to control the 3/5 of mankind and the 4/5 of world economy.

Book said the days of Western predominance are numbered because Europeans no longer work long hours, and Americans have almost given up saving completely. The real workers and savers in the world are now the heirs of Confucius, not Calvin. Western civilization has lost its ability to solve the world's problems. The future world will be ruled by the Asian Confucian culture.