What is the 19th century equivalent of modern China ?

Answer 1

19th century china. 

China hasn't advanced much other than the military technology they've stolen from the US. 

Answer 2

450 years ago there was no USA and Britain was a bunch of Pirates and the world was trying to get to China and India and for thousands of years the Silk Road was the big Jackpot maker or loser , Napoleon said to the world "beware the sleeping giant " , in the 1980s the USA and UK  created the free market and China highly populated a very poor majority was a capitalists wet dream , they plundered it and supplied technology to create the good to western standards , the Apprentice has latent natural ability and is now the master and will leave the too greedy master way behind its called evolution not Evil China 

Answer 3

Europe and the United States. They say that until 1820 China and India were the biggest economies throughout the world. Then their role was taken over by Europe and the United States. But nowadays it shows up that it was only an episode.