An Interesting afterthought of your article : - Will China ever revolt? Will its people ever get on the streets throw up their hands and yell - enough is enough? Even if they were simply asking for a change of party leader, they will be silenced!! A case in point would be to see what happened to those protesters who protested the lockdowns last year when covid finally reared its ugly head in China (after being caged) and ran through the population. Much of China's finances have been spent on largesse such as the BRI (Belt & Road Initiative), and I wager that their national balance sheet after all this global infrastructure expenditure coupled with their slowing economy , must be looking pretty red now!! I am sure they would listen to advice in private, but not in public.