Historically that has not been the case. China is always trying to fly apart. It's not really one nation you know. Anymore than the Russian Empire/Soviet Union/Russian Federation is.Although perhaps they are more so now than anytime in the recent past, like the last millennium or so.
The reason Sun Tsu was such a great military philosopher was that *he had lots of observations*, mostly of Chinese fighting other Chinese.
Very true. I sometimes think that the reason they’re doing so well is that the gov’t is too busy fighting with itself to pay much attention to governing the people, so they just let them go and they prosper. Unfortunately our gov’t seems to think that the best way to keep itself together is by forcing more rules on the governed.