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Is there any way that China, during the Late Middle Ages and during or after the Yuan, could possibly not stagnate and fall behind Europe tech-wise like in OTL? Could it stay progressive and start inventing better guns, steam-power, and other marvels that the Europeans invented first IOTL? Second off, what made China stagnate in the first place? Third, could a TL be written?
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