To better understand China, you will have to understand that the CCP was nothing but peasant rebels not too long ago, the notion of "the country was built by us" so that anything is our rewards and have to be governed by our progeny, is deep-rooted. And think of the core governning clique as a criminal gang.
Nowadays that last sentence alone does not give away whether your post is about China, the US or Russia.
Agreed most upper echelons of governments can be seen as gangs.