Aka, what would happens to Europe and the west (roughly), and more specifically, sociological, religious, philosphicaly, etc edges, had China (or asia in general) kinda 'won' the advancement course? What if China overtook Europe and kept ahead, preindustrial, industrial conditions went in, a sort of colonialism maybe?
What would it change in europe, europeans? Would there be a growing isolationism born of a fear of a new threat, a growing feeling of inferiority? Like Islam after the Mongols, would Christianism as a whole tend to gradually retreat into a traditionalism, and a certain radicalism?
OR it could open the minds of europeans in the long run?
This is a part of this scenario rarely answered I felt. The ripple effects away, and mindsets.