如果中国不存在将会怎样？ [美国媒体]

What would happen if China didn't exist?

如果中国不存在将会怎样？


Robbe Nagel, A tiny spec in space trying to understand my surroundings
Updated Nov 9
Interesting question.

有趣的问题。

Well let me sum up some of the consequences if China didn’t exist, and you will be surprised how influential China is on the world.

好吧让我来总结下一些如果中国不存在的影响，你将会对中国在世界的影响力感到惊讶。

First of all, the most noticeable difference on the world map is a big gap where China would be:

首先，最显着的差别是世界地图上中国那一块将会有巨大的缺口：



The results of this are most noticeable for Russia and Japan, as they now have a way stronger position in the global trade market, because they are able to trade much easier in big quantities with the rest of Asia (Considering China is now replaced with sea)

这一结果对俄罗斯和日本是最明显的，它们现在在全球贸易市场上会有更强的地位，因为它们能够与亚洲其他国家更容易地交易（考虑到中国现在被海洋取代了 ）

Now the most noticeable difference in general is how companies manufacture their products. As we all know, China is the factory of the world, producing a huge part of all the products in the world. Now there are multiple options that could happen with China not existing any longer.

现在最显着的差别是公司如何制造产品。 众所周知，中国是世界工厂，生产了占世界很大一部分的产品。现在随着中国不再存在而发生了多种选项。

-India

-印度

India would replace China as the factory of the world. The loans are just as cheap in India as in China and India now has a way more centred location to the rest of Asia.

印度将取代中国成为世界工厂。这些贷款在印度和中国一样便宜，印度现在在亚洲其他地区处于更加中心的位置。

-High prices

高的价格

If China wouldn't be replaced as a factory, we would have had way higher prices for almost any product.

如果中国不会被取代为工厂，那么对于几乎任何的产品，我们都会有更高的价格。

The final consequence makes a big difference to the world.

最后的结果是对世界有很大的差异。

Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Chinese people, but if China didn't exist, it would mean that the 1 billion+ people living in China wouldn’t exist either, and that would be better for the world looking at nature.

现在不要误会我，我并不反对中国人，但如果中国不存在，这意味着生活在中国的10亿以上的人民也不会存在，世界将更好的考虑自然。

People need space, energy, food, water etc. And all of these things cause CO2 pollution.

人们需要空间，能量，食物，水等。所有这些都造成二氧化碳污染。

Our world is very crowded, and 1 billion people would make a huge difference in the consumption of products and thus the air pollution.

我们的世界非常拥挤， 10亿人将在产品消费，从而造成空气污染方面产生巨大差异。

However, we would miss an awesome, intelligent and nice group of people, with great culture, food and architecture. It saddens me thinking about China not existing.

然而,我们将错过很棒的,聪明,的漂亮的一群人,以及伟大的文化、食物和建筑。这让我一想到中国不存在就感到伤心。

Edit: I know Africa is missing, I have no idea why. I will change the image if I’m not too lazy for doing so.

编辑：我知道非洲不见了，我也不知道为啥。如果我不是太懒的话我会换下图片。
 

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Qg Kop, a Senior data recovery engineer, Tech blogger, China expert.
Written Nov 2
That’s quite interesting.

这很有趣。

The only thing I can imagine is that the word will be get into a big chaos, if China disappear overnight.

我唯一能想到的是，如果中国一夜之间消失，这个世界将会陷入一个大混乱。

Who will be the new master of this vast continent?

谁会成为这片广阔大陆的新主人？

Will Russia have a new ice-free port?

俄罗斯会有一个新的不冻港吗？

Will Japan still dwell in such a small and unstable island?
...

日本还会在那个弹丸之岛吗？
。。。

Conflict, blood, death, tear...that’s just I could foresee.

冲突、鲜血、死亡、眼泪……这是我所能预见。
 

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Duke
Written Nov 7
Something you have never imagined before:

一些你从没想象过得事情：

You will have no paper to write.

你将没有纸可以书写。

Cause paper was invented by Chinese in Han dynasty.

因为纸是在中国汉朝发明的。


 

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Kwan Ng, Chinese
Written Fri
Alot of chinese inventions would have to be discovered by others, some might not be discovered. I mean we know that some chinese inventions / discoveries from Han or Tang times did not make it to the west till a millenium later.

许多中国发明必须被别人发现，有些可能不被发现。我的意思是我们都知道一些中国发明/发现从汉或唐时期并没有传到西方，直到一千年以后。

But my real concern is chinese food and that just makes me weep to think it would not exist. Depending on if you mean just the people did not exist and others would take over the territory or if the whole landmass would not exist either i get sadder. At least if others took over the land then there would probably be some similar cuisine depending on which of her neighbours replaced her. But if the whole landmass was missing i wonder how her neighbours cuisine would look like since alot of them were influenced or adopted chinese cooking.

但我真正关心的是中国食物，想到它不存在就让我哭泣。 这取决于你是认为人不见了，其他人可以接管领土，或者是整个大陆都消失不见了也让我更难过。至少如果其他人接管了土地，根据取代她的邻居那里可能还有些类似的料理。但是如果整个大陆消失了，我怀疑她的邻居的料理是否类似，因为他们大部分都是受到中国料理的影响。
 

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Fahrettin Perçin, loves sci-tech, follows daily news and thirsty for knowledge
Written Nov 6
Assuming that you meant the land of China doesn’t disappear and only Chinese people and culture are wiped out from history, here are some of the things that might happen:

假设你的意思是中国的土地不消失，只有中国人民和文化从历史上消失，这里有一些可能发生的事情：

China has great contributions to civilizations. Some of them are as basic as gunpowder, printing and compass. Since we are thinking a world without China, we can say that these inventions will exist later in history, perhaps never, and probably we wouldn’t have the same technology in this paralel universe at 2016.

中国对文明有很大的贡献。 其中一些是基本的，如火药，印刷和罗盘。由于我们在假设一个没有中国的世界，我们可以说，这些发明也许将在以后的历史中存在，也许不会，而且在2016年我们这个平行空间里可能也没有相同的技术。

Another possible scenario is that since Turks and Chinese wouldn’t have fought for centuries, there is a good chance that Turks would take those lands and create a powerful state. Also, one of the reasons why Turks became Muslim was the fact that they supported Arabs in their fight with Chinese. So, that won’t be happening. Probably, Turks will never join Islam and therefore Byzantine won’t cease to exist since Ottoman Empire won’t be in history. Is this a good thing though? Scholars in Byzantine fled to Europe once the Constantinople (Istanbul) was conquered. These people, as historians point out, contributed to Renaissance hugely. Can you imagine a Europe without Renaissance?

另一种可能的情况是，由于土耳其人和中国人几个世纪不会战斗，这是一个好的机会，土耳其可以占领这些土地并建立一个强大的国家。此外，土耳其人成为穆斯林的原因之一是，他们支持阿拉伯人与中国人的战斗。所以，这将不会发生。也许，土耳其永远不会加入伊斯兰教，因此拜占庭将不复存在，因为奥斯曼帝国将不会在历史中出现。这是一件好事吗？一旦君士坦丁堡（伊斯坦布尔）被征服，拜占庭的学者们就逃往欧洲。 这些人，正如历史学家所指出的，对文艺复兴有巨大贡献。你能想象一个没有文艺复兴时期的欧洲吗？
 

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Orion Walker, Accomplished Procrastinator.
Written Nov 7
Well it depends.

看情况。

If China as we know it did not exist, but the land that China is situated on still existed, then another civilisation may or may not rise to take its place. This is provided that the ancient ancestors of the Han Chinese never existed in the first place.

如果我们知道中国不存在，但中国所在的土地仍然存在，那么另一个文明可能会或可能不会取而代之。首先这是假设远古的汉族祖先并不存在的情况。

If you're referring to the disappearance of the landmass that comprises modern day China, well who knows what would happen. One thing is for certain, there'd be less land for us to cultivate and to build cities.

如果你指的是包括现代中国的土地的消失，谁知道会发生什么。 有一点是肯定的，我们会有更少的土地来耕种和建设城市。

I guess that you mean what if Chinese culture and history didn't exist so let's assume that in an alternate timeline, the ancestors of the Chinese who established Chinese Civilisation never existed. Well, a new culture, cultures, country or countries will rise. They would speak a very different language and have very different traditions and cultures.

我想你的意思是，如果中国文化和历史不存在，那么让我们假设在另一个时间轴上，中国人的祖先建立中国文明从未存在过。那么，一种新的文化，文化，国家或国家将会出现。 他们会说一种非常不同的语言，并有着非常不同的传统和文化。

Will there be an another civilisation to replace Chinese Civilisation? Perhaps. If there is, it will not be recognisable to us. Again, there might not be another civilisation.

是否有另一个文明来代替中国文明？ 也许。 如果有，对我们来说它可能是不可辨识的。 此外，可能没有另一个文明。

Will other countries or civilisations be affected? Most likely. Japan would not be Japan as we know it and the same thing will happen to Korea. There may not be a Silk Road or perhaps there will be a different kind of Silk Road that traded in something else.

其他国家或文明会受到影响吗？ 很有可能。日本将不再是我们所知道的日本，韩国也会发生同样的情况。可能没有了丝绸之路，或者也许会有另一条交易其他东西的丝绸之路。

What will these people look like? Perhaps as they do today because I'm only referring to the ancestors of the collective group of people who, overtime established Chinese Civilisation. The Chinese may simply be replaced by another group of Asian looking people but then again, other people could settle in China.

这些人会是什么样子？ 也许就像他们今天一样，因为我只是指集体人群的祖先，加时建立了中华文明。中国人可能只是被其他亚洲模样的人取代，但话又说回来，其他人也可以在中国定居。

If in this alternate timeline, this alternative Civilisation developed, what would they be like? Can't really say but if a civilisation in China developed that wasn't Chinese, it would most likely influence the areas around it through either cultural assimilation or conquest. Humans tend to follow a pattern in regards to building civilisations so this much is certain.

如果在这个替代的时间表里，这个发展的替代文明，他们会是什么样的？不能真正说但如果一个文明在中国发展又不是中国，它很可能通过文化同化或征服影响周围的地区。人类对于构建文明倾向于一个模式，所以这是必然的。

For people living in 2016 in that timeline, what would this mean? We wouldn't know. Maybe they'd be unified under a single cultural identity or perhaps be separated into many nations.

对于生活在2016年的人来说，这意味着什么？ 我们不知道。 也许他们在一个单一的文化认同中统一或可能分离为许多国家。

I think the question should be more along the lines of “What if Qin Shi Huang Di was never born ?” or “What if the Zhou Dynasty never existed?” The “China” as we know it would certainly not exist and things would certainly be different. But that's for another time.

我认为这个问题应该更接近“如果秦始皇帝从未出生怎么办？”或“如果周朝永远不存在怎么办？”我们知道的“中国”肯定不会存在，事情肯定会不同。 但那是另一个时空。
 

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Shehryar Khan
Written Nov 1
All the cheap consumer products will get much costly.

所有的廉价消费品将变得更加昂贵。

 

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Raja Thiagarajan, Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
Written 12am
India would be the superpower in Asia because its location, people.

印度将会是亚洲的超级大国，因为它的位置，人口。

Oil consumption of the world will be reduced by 25% and thus oil exporting countries will having difficulties.

世界石油消费量将减少25％，因此石油出口国将有困难。

India would be the place where every product in the world is made.

印度将是世界上每一个产品制造的地方。

World will have less pollution.

世界将有更少的污染。

Russia, Mongolia can be build new ports where China was located.

俄罗斯，蒙古可以建造中国所在的新港口。

Finally, there would be no Chinese knock off of every product

最后,就不会有中国山寨每个产品。