[PIF]

I find it hard to imagine that things are that bad in China. If they are I can’t see China’s government lasting much longer.

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Xi Jinping, aka Panda Face, may fall, but the Party will go on - headed by a different person and cabal. Protestors will be rounded up, imprisoned, shot, or vivisected for their organs.

[Pontiac]

the Party will go on - headed by a different person and cabal.

I agree. I meant that in a parliamentary sense that a new government would be formed under the same system.

The lesson to be learned from Gorbachev is that totalitarian governments only fall from within when a ruler comes to power that wishes to be less brutal.