Why Chinese conquer Turks so many times but the reverse is nearly 0 ???

**ButlerKing** · 06-05-2018, 11:06 PM

If we look at Turkic empire history they have ruled Europeans, South Asian, Arabs, Iranians, Caucasus, central Asia, parts of Africa for a very long time from 500 years to 1500 years depending on the continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._and_countries

Are Chinese strong no ? the answer is no. They were pretty weak being conquered by Mongols, Manchus, Tibetan, Jurchen, Khitan, Xianbei, Japanese, Burmese tribes and by European empires in 18th-19th century century ( of course with Europeans one could argue because European had guns while Chinese had knifes and swords ). The Chinese never had a impressive land expansive empire and in history 500,000 ming soldiers were destroyed by 20,000 Mongol oirat soldiers and Tang dynasty invasion of Korea with million Chinese soldiers (+ many Turkic soldiers ) lost against Koreans.

Even in the Tang dynasty, they relied mostly Turkic soldiers to help their expansion in western and central asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._and_countries

However how come there has never been a Turkic empire ruling Chinese ???

Instead you have Chinese ruling over Xiongnu, Gokturks, Uyghurs, Yenesi Kyrgyz and other Turkic tribes.

Han dynasty ruling Turkic people 200 years in Mongolia
Tang dynasty ( even though they used mostly Turkic soldiers ) ruling Turkic people 80 years in Mongolia and central Asia.
Republic of China ruling Turkic people from 1912 - 1949
People's republic of China ruling Turkic people from 1949 - 2018
The Yenesei Kyrgyz Khan claim male descent from Han Chinese ruling over Kyrgyz from 539 AD to 1219 AD ? nearly 700 years

**ButlerKing** · 06-05-2018, 11:10 PM

History of the China's great wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor..._Wall_of_China

It was built against Turks. Many Turks always bragged about Chinese are cowards who built the great wall against Turks but I'm surprised there had never been a Turkic empire ruling over China except for a few extreme short years of Turkic kingdom that claim to be paternal descendants of Han Chinese ( not sure if this even counts ). Turks had been neighbours to China for thousand years.