Best quote from the article.
“Far more disturbing, top authorities are systematically undermining the political norms that figures such as Deng Xiaoping built in the early reform period to guard against the governance failures and horrors of the Maoist era. “
I do agree that there is a movement in that direction. I disagree that it will be embraced by Beijing completely. There are other factors that, for the most part, are transparent to Western “experts”.