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China's problem has always been how to maintain control through the ebb and flows of history. When centralized governments fail in China, they fail HARD. (This in no way is a moral defense of what they do.)

With mounting economic pressure from internal growth slowing down and n-times-burned global trading partners, the current regime is up against the wall. The one BIG difference this time is that AI has such effective policing effectiveness. Previously marshaling paramilitaries and corralling local warlords were the (hard to scale) tools available. They were not the best tools, because when the central govt fails, the empowered local forces have enough strength to wreak havoc.

AI is so powerful in China because AI is mostly bound by dataset size (at our current stage of research). And if there's one thing that's cheap for the CCP to get, it's training data.

If there's a time for dynasty building, it is now. The CCP may be the most resilient thanks to AI.