The average chinaman isn't in control of China's foreign policy. The Chinese communist party, which has long had links with the Kremlin, is what calls the shots. That's the difference between a totalitarian regime and a Republican or Democratic one. The will of the people matters not, and can easily be changed through supression and propaganda.
The archilles heel of both regimes is corruption. But its easier to describe than to cure the disease. This is the number one restraint on the continued growth of the Russian and Chinese economies. Kleptocracies sooner or later collapse of their own inherent rottenness. Both Putin and Xiping will be unable to completely extirpate it.
~The average chinaman isn’t in control of China’s foreign policy. The Chinese communist party, which has long had links with the Kremlin, is what calls the shots. That’s the difference between a totalitarian regime and a Republican or Democratic one. The will of the people matters not, and can easily be changed through supression and propaganda~
True to some degree, but an authoritarian government has to mind public opinion too, or it won’t last long.
Not to mention Chinese commie apparatchics aren’t imported from an outer space, they are coming from the rest of Chinese and it makes their background.