07-17-2017, 07:40 AM
(07-16-2017, 07:14 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > I read your link. It doesn't appear to substantiate what you're
> trying to claim here. For example, it says, "The xenophobia
> between Mongol and Han Chinese is still a powerful force today",
> which suggests that the cultures have in fact not merged.
> It also says the agricultural tax system was only adopted by the
> Mongol rulers after they took over China - which of course makes
> sense, since the Mongols were a pastoral, not an agricultural,
> society before taking over China, and so would not have had an
> agricultural tax system to start with. That was an adjustment of
> the Mongol rulers to Chinese traditions, not a merging in of
> Mongol traditions, and it likely was the result of the advice of
> the Han neoconfucian advisors who advised each consecutive
> dynasty.
> Even today, the Uighurs and other successors of the Mongols
> continue to constitute the biggest security threat to China - and
> they are still also a security threat to Russia, as well.
The fact that Han and Mongols have fought crisis wars with each
other means that there is still a lot of animosity between the
two. That doesn't affect the fact that Russia and China will
be on opposites sides in WW III. I haven't done any sort of
historical generational analysis of Mongolia, so I don't know
whether they'll choose Russia or China when they're forced
to choose.