[mrsmith]

Bah.
Feudal systems, like China has, don’t fall until everything falls with them.

[Zhang Fei]

[Bah.
Feudal systems, like China has, don’t fall until everything falls with them.]

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I don’t know about systemic change, but regime changes are fairly common. Depending on how you keep count, the 20th century incorporated 5 regimes/rulers - Imperial China, Yuan Shih-kai, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung, Teng Hsiao-ping. Xi Jinping is essentially part of the Deng period, which began after Deng’s successful coup against Mao’s hand-picked successor, Hua Guofeng. It’s a feudal system in the sense that the ruler has absolute power backed up by pitiless violence, and this power is shared/delegated to powerful courtiers, but this is leavened by regular changes of regime where the elites are either replaced by other elites or the lowest strata of society by armed force.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

4. Red China may artificially resemble the old feudal kingdom’s but with modern weapons, transportation, communications and control of, plus a massive police force/Military, the Red Chinese Communist Party and it’s enforcement arms ,will crush as any opposition in blood and not give a Damn. After all, Michael Bloomturd and Joe Biden deny that RC is threat.

[arthurus]

“So the real intellectual problem is how do you exit communism?” The fall of Communism in China is really rather irrelevant to China. China has been ruled by absolute despots with the murderous effects of Mao for three millennia. When there is an interregnum- a Period of Warring States- it just breaks apart for a time into several murderous despotisms all with total control of even the lowest level of the society. I have read a lot of Chinese history in the last year and have come to realize that Mao was no aberration but rather another in a line of similar Chinese Emperors.