> Lai is a victim of this miscalculation.

I don't think it was a miscalculation. Greed always ran deep in the West too.

> If a country's people could either violently (Romania) or peacefully (almost everywhere else) remove such totalitarian systems of politics

It's not always possible. It works in some countries but not in others. For instance, it seems not possible in Russia.

> China, on the other hand, had not moved away from command economics at the time. Instead, the result was state capitalism. People were free to try new things that could create economic expansion, but only in a way that served the needs of the state.

I somewhat agree, as the sinomarxist theorem and strategem is about that (and the sinomarxists also managed to bring out many people out of poverty too), but your analysis is not entirely correct either as China has many superrich now, which is a perversion in the system. So Xi also lies here. Because how can there be so many super-superrich? This is a master-slave situation, just like in other capitalistic countries. So why then the lie about sinomarxism? They just sell it like an ideology now, not unlike the Juche crap in North Korea.