> Can you provide any link or evidence that you made the specific bet 50 years ago?
US relations with China began in the 1970s during the Nixon administration. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_1972_visit_t....
> Only impatient and ignorant monkeys think it takes several years to change 1.4 billion people.
It's a matter of willingness, not time. If Xi can create a system to surveil and restrict the free speech of 1.4 billion people in less than 10 years, I'm sure he can create a system of Democracy in even less time than that.