THE DEMOCRACY or Centralized Govt. is just a form on how one nation choose to administrate the country, when you have no other choices between Democracy and Stability, especially from the foreighers' interference, the one nation chose the later.
I own a trading business and thus i have good relationship with many chineses, and through my personal experience China is NOT oppressive as everyone think, thus you have to live there to tell the truth, there are plenty of Americans who live in China i believe they can confirm this too.
Considering the whole instability China is going though (such autonomous region as Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Sikkim and Taiwan) most likely will follow Hongkong to declare independence after Hongkongers' referendum. Sounds familiar right? In order to replicate the fall of most influential communist country in the world after USSR in 1991, and Democracy was their ultimate trump card, but unfortunately the entire HK separatist's operation got cracked down before their success, i can tell ya, the HK democracy was entirely, nothing but a BIG hoax. This is the alternative version I saw from a different view, and it's more convincing and exact opposite from the one showed on any westerners' media.
At this point, the only thing sure is no one ever cared about true Democracy, only a TOOL used by people in power to strike their adversaries. Seeing those Trump MAGA Rioter and looter marching into Capitol is the confirmation about it.