[Zhang Fei]

[Bah.
Feudal systems, like China has, don’t fall until everything falls with them.]

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I don’t know about systemic change, but regime changes are fairly common. Depending on how you keep count, the 20th century incorporated 5 regimes/rulers - Imperial China, Yuan Shih-kai, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung, Teng Hsiao-ping. Xi Jinping is essentially part of the Deng period, which began after Deng’s successful coup against Mao’s hand-picked successor, Hua Guofeng. It’s a feudal system in the sense that the ruler has absolute power backed up by pitiless violence, and this power is shared/delegated to powerful courtiers, but this is leavened by regular changes of regime where the elites are either replaced by other elites or the lowest strata of society by armed force.

[mrsmith]

Hard to change a regime when it can launch a nuke at an enemy.

[ifinnegan]

“Xi Jinping is essentially part of the Deng period, which began after Deng’s successful coup against Mao’s hand-picked successor, Hua Guofeng.”

I think Xi is the first post-Deng leader in that Deng did not annoint him as he did Jiang and Hu.

This is why it is unstable or potentially so.

Ultimately the PRC is a banana republic and whoever the military backs is the civilian leader.

[granada]

“......but regime changes are fairly common. ”
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Lol. Time period of 100+ years, the Great British empire has shrunk to a little Britain.

Your wishful thinking is even more mysterious than indian rain dance!