Not to put too fine a point on it, but "wildly incompetent at the national scale, for extended periods of time, at the cost of potentially destroying their own

Not to put too fine a point on it, but "wildly incompetent at the national scale, for extended periods of time, at the cost of potentially destroying their own country" is a pretty accurate summary of the Mao era in China, and Xi has engineered his way into being in precisely the same position of having essentially unlimited power.