Every time people point this out, it gets accused of sinophobia. I'd say most Chinese cast their lot a good while ago and they decided to trade some personal f

Every time people point this out, it gets accused of sinophobia. I'd say most Chinese cast their lot a good while ago and they decided to trade some personal freedom for economic prosperity, basically giving the CCP carte blanche to do anything (in)humanly possible to preserve the status quo. Reversing that trend is not impossible but it's extremely difficult by now: there's simply not enough dissent and anything that does pop up gets quickly dealt with. It's why Hong Kong is so important.