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China arguably had the technology to, the will to seemed to be the issue. However if different philosophies had taken hold of China and in the early 15th had chosen to engage in exploration and colonization similar to what the Europeans would en-mass a century later how far could they have gotten as a power?
Could the Europeans have even really caught up with a century head start for China?