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It’s the system that is the issue. Without checks and balances if it wasn’t Xi it would just be another guy with a different name.
I believe Deng Xiaoping had two successors lined up last being Hi Jintao, so a dictator was always going to seize power when xi came on.
So you can replace until Xi showed up with until anyone showed up that term.
China can unite with Taiwan tomorrow if they want to peacefully.
It’s been done before. Look how East and West Germany did it. Overnight.
All China has to do is be East Germany and let Taiwan be West Germany and it will be sorted. But obviously they don’t want that because being one country isn’t their main goal.