[mensetmanusman]

Actually, America is one of the oldest continuously operating stable political systems in the world. (UK is older)

For example, the US in its current form is older than China, which was taken over relatively recently by the CCP who are also actively destroying most vestiges of cultural heritage through forced migration and erasing of inconvenient history.

[skylurk]

Nevertheless, China has rich traditions and cultural heritage that go back millennia.

Perhaps even the only place that can top Japan in this regard.

[throwaway2037]

    > Perhaps even the only place that can top Japan in this regard.

But not India or Korea or "Levantine" (modern Israel, Palestine, Lebanon) or Egypt or Greece?