Ping!
At the same time, those leaders have found a means to extend their life span (speaking of the system) through courting and mesmerizing the west with the potential of a huge market (which they never intend to open to the west for the vast majority of their peoples), and cheap labor, so that the funds literally pour in. My contention is that the Chinese Communist party WILL ultimately go down. By helping them fund their own misbegotten attempts to rise to self-sufficiency, when they otherwise would have failed miserably and fallen, we may in fact insure that it goes down hard (meaning the potential for out and out war). Either way, it will fail and free will and a republican form of government will ultimately return to China IMHO.