Why Does China Still Exist?

Our next question comes from michael, who asks, why does china still exist? While every other empire in the world collapsed under its own size, china is still going after so long. This despite splitting into multiple pieces and fighting civil wars for hundreds of years. And yet it's managed to piece itself back together again. How and why? Well, i immediately think of that old a beginning of the romance of the three kingdoms, the empire. When long united must divide, and when long divided must unite. The thing that we must first get out of the way is, what does it mean to exist? It quickly is pretty esoterically philosophical, kind of down the path