A few centuries ago, China banned a major decentralized system that was used for peer-to-peer international transactions (maritime trading). The ban (海禁) has reduced the international influence of China, and made China so weak that European countries eventually colonized it.

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Submitted September 16, 2017 at 04:48PM by themetalfriend http://ift.tt/2jxYbgI

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