You say there won't be a civil war then you describe a mythical "revolution of the people" which isn't what was suggested. The civil war would be elites vs. other elites, using disaffected youth as pawns wherever possible. The major moves would be fractures in the bureaucracy, and attempts to control breakaway PLA groups.
You say there won't be a civil war then you describe a mythical "revolution of the people" which isn't what was suggested. The civil war would be elites vs. other elites, using disaffected youth as pawns wherever possible. The major moves would be fractures in the bureaucracy, and attempts to control breakaway PLA groups.
And the disaffected youths won't be part of the violent conflicts, they have similar attitude to "let the zogs fight, just leave my waifus alone"
Tell that to the Ukrainian and Russian.
I think that Xi has been fairly effective in purging the disloyal from the ranks of the Chinese government and CCP.