@karllouis @kathygriffin Sometimes things do get better. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union was remarkably peaceful. It's easy to point to reasons it went so well in retrospect, but few would have imagined such an ending in advance.

The history of the CCP does not inspire optimism, and comparing China to Soviet is almost as pointless as comparing Gorbachev to Xi.

That said, the situation is not bound to end awfully. But I'm afraid it is likely to.