It is wrong that autocracies don't have the same problems, perhaps or probably even more significant. The premises are wrong. If we think all politics stream do

It is wrong that autocracies don't have the same problems, perhaps or probably even more significant. The premises are wrong. If we think all politics stream down from Xi, you would be mistaken. The largest threat to him are his own party members and that is true in every autocracy. So instead of making some grand technocratic beneficial decisions, the decisions are mostly oriented towards keeping you in power. A power that is very fragile. At times that still might net sensible policies, but the same is true for democracies who have to deal with public opinion. Democracies have the benefit that even a mob (the public) has some capabilities for learning. The solutions to domestic manufacturing would be solved completely differently in both countries because the problems are different. A large factor is simply labor costs for developed nations for example. I don't think there is a solution aside from import/export taxes. If that is true, is Trump secretly a good president? Perhaps not, but you would need to come up with solutions yourself. A democracy where a public just demands solutions is ineffective, but so are most if not all more autocratically governed nations.