Survive the Roman Empire?

Western institutions don’t understand China because they only have one playbook for power and that is Rome. But China isn’t like Rome at all. China is like Carthage. Both Carthage and China focused on trade, innovation, win-win cooperation to build a better world. Rome excelled at the slave trade and was a slave economy that barely invented anything and when it went down the toilet in 476, dragged the rest of Europe down with it and created headaches for Europeans that can still be felt now. Whe