Xi......
What are his young people telling him?
I suspect they want to continue their relative prosperity rather than be forced to accept probable austerity.
They are not interested in the hardship of the long march
China is probably more capitalist than the USA was under Obama. They have a large and growing middle class. In light of their middle class, China/CCP does not want an economic/trade war with the USA. In a similar manner, the Chinese middle class does not want a military war with the USA. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the rise of the middle class. The protest took the lives of thousands, prob 10s of thousands of China’s middle class. The protest made the case for economic power that the middle class was willing to die for. IOW, the Old Guard/CCP has the political power, the middle class has the economic power and proved they are willing to die to keep the economy flowing. Their middle class does not want to return to the farms. If the Old Guard screws up and escalates a trade war that depresses, or God forbid, collapses their econ, then the Old Guard realizes this could tear the country apart with the real possibility/probability of taking down the Old Guard.
What’s a Free Traitor™ commenting on the long overdue retaliation? Your ChiComs handlers are not going to like that.