Along that line: my own understanding of Chinese history says that 50+ years of peacetime always led China back to #1 economy and its dynastic cycle around 200 years. Whoever succeeds Xi, China may likely become more nationalistic.actually the Chinese system is extremely resilient when it works. There's a bimodal distribution of dynasty survival times: short (too many to list) and long (the famous Han, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing). Fun fact: almost all dynasties that survive 60 years will also survive to 120 years.