China collapsed at the end of the Qing dynasty. There followed civil war and conquest by Japan. And then the Communists overthrew the Nationalists. And then you

China collapsed at the end of the Qing dynasty. There followed civil war and conquest by Japan. And then the Communists overthrew the Nationalists. And then you had the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, and then switch away from Mao to a mixed economy, and finally Xi's new Maoism. The history of China for the last century has been quite unstable, and so it seems quite reasonable to assume that one of these days there is going to be some more revolution.