In general I'd agree with all of this. I think the biggest challenge they're going to face is that Xi Jinping isn't immortal. The nature of a dictatorship is such that benevolent and skilled leadership can achieve amazing things, but incompetent leadership can completely destroy a society. And relying on good leadership to choose good successors is rife with precedent of failure.
By contrast in the US whether we have a vegetable or a clown in the driver seat, the system remains relatively more stable. But that also means that even if somehow we managed to find a skilled and benevolent leader, the amount of good he'd be able to really do is just as limited as the amount of harm the aforementioned can do.
By contrast in the US whether we have a vegetable or a clown in the driver seat, the system remains relatively more stable. But that also means that even if somehow we managed to find a skilled and benevolent leader, the amount of good he'd be able to really do is just as limited as the amount of harm the aforementioned can do.