In the wake of HK’s massive protest, it seems like the Chinese government can not afford to tolerate any kind of social unrest. The future of China is quite interesting! Thanks for sharing!
For rest of China, it's more like CCP can afford not to have unrest than cannot afford unrest. The interesting figure in the article is ~200B on domestic security, comparable to US. Past analysis of Chinese domestic security spending (by lol Zenz) tried to paint Chinese spending as excessive, twice US spending when converted to PPP, but per capita, it's 1/2 US. Control is cheap, and I surmise will only get cheaper.