Let’s be real, when has an authoritarian government ever let its own people drive social changes? That never happens because such reforms would be an existentia

Let’s be real, when has an authoritarian government ever let its own people drive social changes? That never happens because such reforms would be an existential threat to that very form of government. US institutions at least aspire to enable its society to affect social change. The only way china will change is if the government can no longer uphold the social contract (exchange of social liberties for quality of life increases) and its people forcibly change management.