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== China ==

== China ==

China, like India, is significant because it has so many people.  But there the similarities end.  There is no Hinduism in China.  There is very little ethnic diversity in China, in contrast to India and many Western countries today.  Christianity has struggled to convert the country, and only about 1 out of 9 Chinese are Christian.  That number is due to courageous efforts in the face of much governmental persecution of religion.

China, like India, is significant because it has so many people.  But there the similarities end.  There is no Hinduism in China.  There is very little ethnic diversity in China, in contrast to India and many Western countries today.  Christianity has struggled to convert the country despite courageous efforts in the face of much governmental persecution of religion.

China has always been isolated by geographic protections.  The highest mountains in the world separate it from India; vast amounts of semi-desert land separated it from Mesopotamia.  In the south flowed the Yangtze river for 3000 miles, navigable from the sea for half of its course.  In the north was the Yellow river, known for its disastrous tendency to flood.   

China has always been isolated by geographic protections.  The highest mountains in the world separate it from India; vast amounts of semi-desert land separated it from Mesopotamia.  In the south flowed the Yangtze river for 3000 miles, navigable from the sea for half of its course.  In the north was the Yellow river, known for its disastrous tendency to flood.