>>2414677 (OP)china now is the ussr after stalin.
All countries are big ideas from great men and when they're gone the institutions slowly degenerate.
Gosplan became corrupt when stalin became too sick to get out of bed and send everyone to gulag, the same has been happening to china after mao died.
muttmerica can appoint kangz like Trvmp at any time to save the vvest, whereas Xi has to compete with a million (corrupt) bureaucrats and generals for control