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by JumpCrisscross 2974 days ago
> Chinese dictatorship is panicking; it’s economy is en route to a crash

China is big. Population-wise, militarily and economically. Big economies don't quickly crash in regime-changing ways.

Absent incompetence, the elites will live well for a generation. After that the pattern, as most dictatorships, is familiar--a generation or two that leech amidst decline before a third or fourth which must make radical changes or be violently overthrown (e.g. through insurrection or invasion).