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If these territories were to be reunited with China, the Chinese land area would be 4% bigger than the U.
The underlying reason is Thucydides's Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, this dangerous dynamic has repeatedly ended in war.
The regions political structure was based on dynasties or monarchies for centuries.