Authoritarian regimes are not inherently unstable - no more or less so then ‘mockracies. This article only makes sense if you’re one of those naive people who still believes that this middle east unrest is a spontaneous ‘mockracy movement instead of a coordinated effort to overthrow largely secular despots and replace them with mullahs on the way to a caliphate.
In reality, none of the fundamentals that apply to the middle east uprisings apply to China. Are there folks in China who would like to see the status quo overturned? Sure. Today, they amount to a fart in the wind. China is doing just fine for itself, and is very near to winning its decades long economic war on the United States.
And you seem oddly rather pleased at the prospect. You'd think such perfidy would be rare on a Constitutionalist, pro-America conservative site as Free Republic. But, it's not. It's certainly gotten easier to see whose bread is buttered on which side by whom of late.