To understand how China is ruled and governed, in Chinese culture and spiritual belief, there is something called the Mandate of Heaven. Even today, even with Communism, this belief still exists. The current government has that Mandate and it must work to preserve that.

However, no matter what kind of government you are, democratic or autocratic, capitalist or communist, native monarchry or foreign, once a government loses the Mandate of Heaven, it’s time for a change.

Civil unrest, peasant unrest, natural disasters, death of a leader, war and defeat, even portents from the sky, they can be taken as signs of Heaven’s displeasure, and the Mandate taken from it. Thus the government must keep its people happy, maintain peace, order and security, and must do its duty in order to preserve that Mandate. If you lose that Mandate, no matter what you do, Change will come as inevitable as the tide.