igor alimov well, who else does vyacheslav mikhailovich ask about the russian-chinese plexus, how did a chinese see the world in past centuries and millennia. he for him that hostile neutral in general, he was interested in him two and a half thousand years ago for the chinese. as a matter of fact, their country was. and everything else was already somewhere beyond the line here. for a traditional chinese, the sky is round and the earth is a square, and here is the fact that the corners of the square are not covered with a round sky, that 's where everyone else lives, except for the chinese. therefore, of course, they perceived the outer world, not like that. peer hostile or peer friendly, but just like the periphery on the other side. e in china is generally, especially when sustained there was a central government, and it could organize the work of the agricultural complex, so to speak, on a national scale. e well , the population grew very quickly and it became more and more difficult to feed it, therefore, the chinese developed historically over many centuries, very great pragmati