![]() And sometimes China’s strategy beats America’s. In response, China has accelerated its own efforts to develop its technological industry and reduce its dependence on external imports.Īccording to Dan Wang, a technology expert and visiting scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, China’s tech competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capabilities. U.S.-led sanctions have imposed unprecedented limits on Beijing’s access to advanced computing c. Over the last few years, the United States has moved to limit China’s technological rise. Only FP subscribers can submit questions for FP Live interviews. “In essence … the Comanche-Apache wars were fought over carbohydrates.” ![]() They had all the protein they needed, but needed access the New Mexican markets where they could trade meat and hides for maize, wheat and vegetables. “The Comanche invasion of the southern plains was, quite simply, the longest and bloodiest conquering campaign the American West had witnessed.” They pushed the Utes westward and the Apaches southward. So, he says, for about 100 years, from about 1750 to about 1850, they were “the dominant people in the Southwest,” able to manipulate the Spanish in Mexico almost at will. “Beneath the martial surface were adaptable people who aggressively embraced innovations, subjecting themselves to continuous self-reinvention.” (Are you listening, U.S. They were able to assimilate other ethnic groups. Their culture was flexible and accommodating. And the land they occupied, with open grasslands cut by well-protected river valleys, turned out to be perfect for raising herds of horses.īut they also were also “an extraordinarily adaptive people.” As they had moved eastward and then southward, they had learned new ways of living. ![]() They were close to Mexico and so could obtain horses. One reason the Comanches rose is that they were lucky. Moreover, he says, “the rise of the Comanche empire helps explain why Mexico’s Far North is today the American Southwest.” In addition, northern New Mexico and southeastern Texas became tributary vassalages. expanded westward, why the Mexican War went the way it did, and why Texas is the way it is.ĪThe author, Pekka Hamalainen, argues that the Comanches took advantage of the coming of the horse to expand from a tribe to an empire that covered most of today’s Texas and Oklahoma and part of Colorado and other lands. It changed my understanding of several things - how the U.S. I have to say that The Comanche Empire knocked my socks off. Here is an item that originally ran on November 24, 2015.Įarlier this year, Lance Blyth wrote a column here recommending 10 books to understand how American Indians adapted to the gun and the horse.
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