Things have changed. That China no longer exists. That China no longer has total control over their public narrative. Social media, global communications, and the desires of their new middle class to stay middle class have made the moves of the past impossible. It is true that most Chinese people have never heard of Tiananmen Square and probably don’t about the slave treatment of people in their far western provinces, but they all know their bank account balance. That China was just given a gut punch by the Evergrande failure and that failure is going to ripple through the system and maybe even elevate India beyond them in the global economy. It has never been an issue of China making more NCOs, it has always been an issue of the Maoist system surviving in a modern, connected, global economy. Put simply, China is changing and not in the direction Xi wants