Evidence! ! Read more books! Even the "individualism" in the West is borrowed from China. It comes from the "Wo Gui Rou" thought in the "Tao Te Ching" and is similar to Yang Zhu's philosophy. Similar to this, there is "socialism" which originated from the Datong Chapter of the "Analects of Confucius".
To be precise, the West developed on the back of the giant China. Muskets and artillery are not from China. Even the capital for robbery was learned from China.
So why is China lagging behind? In fact, China is not backward. How can you say that a country that has maintained a trade surplus with the world for more than two thousand years is backward?
In fact, it is very simple. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was a minority regime. They were prepared for danger in times of peace. They burned the scientific classic "Tiangong Kaiwu" and massacred scientific and technological personnel through literary inquisition. This was why China was backward.