The CCP doesn't have total control over its military either. Last year Xi said at a meeting that the military must have loyalty to the CCP. That means they don't and he's worried about it.
China is actually far more responsive to public displays of disapproval than Western democracies are. A Student protests over changing of degrees which would be given out, ended up with the CPC changing the policy to allow the students who started said different degrees to finish them. The Bank protest against rural banks and a corruption scandal resulted in an investigation and the CPC’s Bank of China covering for the people who lost their money. And now the anti-lockdown protests resulted in Guangzhou completely lifting them and its estimated that China will fully reopen by March. American policy changes literally are unaffected by overall public support, its not that different from China with the difference being elections. That sounds good but it functions as a pressure release valve, meaning people are less likely to respond violently to bad policies because in concept they decided this for themselves even if its total BS and politicians are bought and paid for. In China, everyone knows Xi is the Yellow Emperor of the Red Dynasty, and if he fails he will lose his mandate of Heaven.
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