What's this administration trying do, return the US to the Third World or the Dark Ages? Madness.
It's a silver lining in disguise, really. Such countries tend to collapse relatively quickly because it turns out facts are important for running a country - look at the USSR's fake food supply. Relatively quickly could still be a decade, though.
It's an open question if they'll retain that with Xi now President for life.
China has been centralized / autocratic for centuries (if not millennia), and the current system is probably not that different than the Emperor's throne.
Why? Because if you check the CVs of most of Politburo members they have degrees in science and engineering. QED!
I suggest you read this link about Chinese leaders/leadership, especially the section headed Change from Charismatic Revolutionaries to Technocrats especially paragraph/bullet points four and five:
yes,
specifically some modern form of feudalism I guess
where the new nobles (as in large companies because in US companies are people) can mostly do whatever they want and the rest of the population is struggling enough to just "get by" to find time to change anything
but given that Trump put since deniers and anti-vaccers into power it's probably a much more "dump" reason
