Traditionally, China has several tenthousand so-called mass incidents per year, non-consequential for the leadership of the party. It is probably not realistic to assume, that any political upset may happen outside the party organisation or that some general appears on TV to announce that the people's leader is unwell and that generals take over for the time being. The propaganda machine can report somewhat freely about foreign countries and makes great strides to tell the Chinese citizen, that anywhere in the world people are worse off than China.