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Chinese dictatorship is panicking; it’s economy is en route to a crash, sped up by tariffs and trade restrictions coming from US and Europe. It will be interesting if their people wake up to their dystopia filled with pollution, random house arrests, disappearances, censorship, higher prices for consumer goods, and jobs disappearing.

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> Chinese dictatorship is panicking; it’s economy is en route to a crash

China is big. Population-wise, militarily and economically. Big economies don't quickly crash in regime-changing ways.

Absent incompetence, the elites will live well for a generation. After that the pattern, as most dictatorships, is familiar--a generation or two that leech amidst decline before a third or fourth which must make radical changes or be violently overthrown (e.g. through insurrection or invasion).

“Wake up to” May not be the right phrase when many of those things are the normal that many have known their whole lives.

One could also phrase such a dystopia like this about western civs.

How would one phrase it?

People will wake up and realize they are debt slaves to an elite few, with livelihoods being made obsolete by tech, with privacy becoming a luxury, with media being used to focus public rage at any particular target?

Yep

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