>>63942318their primary weapon of control is mass surveillance and heavy censorship. if a happenings word cant spread it can be contained. there is a reason they have more cameras inside chingchongstan then there are actual changs. ofc this also serves as a firewall for massive scamming and corruption as officials can always behind the censorship wall if they fuck up too much. thus you end up with poisoned ground water, unbreathable air, tofu ghost cities or everything being about fakes and facades.
in practice if the discontent boils over, like it happened during the wuhan flu and zero coof lunacy, you ended up with protests chanting straight up fuck the CCP and bring democracy. It didnt take long for even the pig headed Xi to dump his so called flag ship policy (zero coof) and swiftly memory hole the whole thing kek
I guess this is the thing if there are tens of millions of members running around. Any small protest can quickly boil over to mass riots as even 1% of population rebelling means rebels numbering in the millions. Which quickly overwhelms any raw strength secret police can muster up