A skeleton in the Chinese Closet;

Skeletons are outlines for a fleshed-out blueprint of positive mobility of purpose. The oldest political comment I know about Red China's leadership is:

They declared war on their own people.

China is revered for its long tradition of literacy, including the oldest Military Treatise, and their refusal to overlook the politically poisonous discipline of Torture. One CANNOT afford to overlook the Chinese acquaintance with head games and psychological warfare.

To put it in an American context, one might envision a situation in which Congressional Representatives used such tactics as "Bait," "Retaliate" and "Escalate," against citizens to the strategic end that the temper lauded by the Dylan Thomas poem, got out of control of its instigator. Properly tended, the fires of ire can be made to wax into a conflagration that results in _impotent_ rage, and attending self-destruction, merely by the passive nature of the suggested aggression.

By itself, there is no reason that the capitalist system should not govern and regulate such a contest. The principle of competition ought to be adequate to the task. Upon closer examination, we must syllogistically conclude that the electorate may not engage in such strategic endeavors equally; Congressional Representatives are not only perceived as premier in importance, but also have a real involvement in the business of the Nation. This is legitimately associated with National Security concerns. Corrupted, this becomes a sort of "brier patch," into which a low-motive bad-actor can continually retreat to regroup.

I expect this will finish China as it did Russia - the cost of such endeavors inevitably results in prohibitive expense. Their only source of salvation would be the Japanese maxim of assassination:

Fix the problem, not the blame.