A modern totalitarian state collapses either when its rulers no longer automatically kill even the hint of opposition, or when its economy collapses. China still kills dissidents, and the US is still filling their coffers. No chance the Chicoms are out of power anytime soon.
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A modern totalitarian state collapses either when its rulers no longer automatically kill even the hint of opposition, or when its economy collapses. China still kills dissidents, and the US is still filling their coffers. No chance the Chicoms are out of power anytime soon.
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You have to watch Chinese social structure carefully before any assumptions.
They have a huge 300 million middle class and twice as large underclasses living for a dollar a day strruggling into a middle class.
A social evevator works nice for determined enought but it is powered with growth.
No growth = big trouble for Chicom gubmint and there is a single way to toss a hundred million unwanted surplus young males.