> Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China. The first (“Year 1 under an authoritarian regime”) is explic

> Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China. The first (“Year 1 under an authoritarian regime”) is explicitly, and the rest also implicitly, about the transition from something loosely approximating a liberal democratic republic or Constutional monarchy to an authoritarian state; its not about surviving in an established authoritarian regime.