The world system
The Tianxia system in Chinese history was once the main political system in East Asia. The system holds that the place where the Son of Heaven sits is the center of the world, the closer to the Son of Heaven, the more subjugated to the king, and the people who are far away from the country and disobey the king are barbarians. If you are close to the Heavenly Dynasty Kingdom, are willing to move closer to the Heavenly Dynasty Kingdom economically and culturally, and are willing to submit to the Heavenly Dynasty Kingdom, that is, the vassal of the Heavenly Dynasty Kingdom, and it is necessary to distinguish it from other barbarians.
In China's thousands of years of history, China has been the top power in East Asia, so the Tianxia system handed down by China from ancient times was once the order of the whole of East Asia, and there were still remnants of this order until the imminent founding of New China. With the passage of time and the slow collapse of the Tianxia system, the last vassal state of China will inevitably appear, and this country was still paying tribute to China more than 70 years ago, and now claims that it will always support China unconditionally, it is Kanjuti.
The vassal state of Kanjuti
Kanjuti's geographical location on the border of present-day Pakistan and Xinjiang dates back to the Tang Dynasty. At the height of the Tang Dynasty, the territory to the west extended all the way to Central Asia, which even included parts of present-day Afghanistan. Under the influence of the Tang Dynasty, the Kanjuti region at that time began to establish contact with China.
In the 26th year of Qianlong, Kanjuti officially became a vassal state of China, and Kanjuti is very special to China because its geographical location is too important. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty at that time attached great importance to Kanjuti and sent troops to help Kanjuti resist external aggression many times. In the tributary system of Kanjuti and the Manchu Qing, the main tribute of Kanjuti was placer gold, which was not a valuable thing, but the Manchus did not complain.
Later, as the Manchu Qing gradually weakened, the great powers also began to invade the Asian region, and the Tianxia system that China had inherited for thousands of years began to collapse. As a Central Asian country, Kanjuti naturally became the "fragrant food" in the eyes of the British Empire. So Kanjuti, though a poor place full of yellow sand, was still invaded by the British. Between the decay of the Manchu Qing, Kanjuti was easily controlled by the British.
Later, the land of China underwent earth-shaking changes, and the iron and fire of the revolution burned on the land of the Central Plains. The Beiyang government, the Republic of China and other regimes appeared one after another, and at that time, Kanjuti still called himself a Manchu vassal state under the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and came to pay tribute according to tradition.
The collapse of the world system
Kanjuti's last tribute was in 1947, when the wave of global independence was surging, and Kanjuti's tribute was a symbolic event for China and for them. After the end of this tribute, the former Tianxia system completely collapsed, and China has become a country that pays attention to sovereign equality between countries.
By now, the country has been incorporated into Pakistan and become the Hunza Autonomous Region within Pakistan. However, the region's relationship with China is still not over. On Earth, the people of this region are considered to be a group of people who are relatively close to China.