Japan modernised and cut through China like a hot knife through butter during the Sino-Japanese War. Presumably, it was complacency and incompetence that prevented China from similarly modernising to their cost.
After much conflict, they found themselves adopting the ideas of a self-hating German Jew. China is the most ancient continuous gentile civilisation in the world and is the most successful and longstanding practitioner of separation between "church" and state. You may have noticed that China is not defined by its religion. Paradoxically, it is also obvious that it operates under the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio" while offering freedom of worship to its subject peoples for a range of recognised and established world religions.
Article 36 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China of 1982 specifies that:
"Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion. The state protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state. Religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination."
China is the world's most ancient continuous empire incorporating within its territories many peoples, cultures and religion which undeniably existed long before 1982.
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