How did the Europeans manage to create such a wonderful life? A: They were industrialised before the other countries, before China, and they captured the rest of the world. The British had the British empire and the French had the French empire. The Belgians had Congo – a little state of fewer than five million people owning the vast African country, with its enormous mineral resources that the Belgians exploited. Then decolonisation came and they were reduced to size. The age of empire – the way Europe dominated the world – will never come back, at least not in that form. It may come back in
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