It is going to be completely self-sustaining, why will it need to answer to anyone.
We've become completely reliant on it and we keep feeding it all our cash.
There are a lot of people who are very bearish on China's immediate prospects and you should read their ideas to balance out the sensationalism of the media
I've said this before, but we should not forget that for 2000 years China was way ahead of other cultures both economically and scientifically. They had a 100 year blip and now they are back with their human ppulation almost completely under their control. Nothing will stand in the way of progress.
Human life is cheap. They have a billion of them and counting. Be afraid, be very afraid.