This seems like a weird take on 1989. Romania was a violent struggle. Czechoslovakia involved strikes and protests. The whole was partly driven by the threat of exit via Hungary IIRC. Still seems unlikely that China will go that way, but stranger things have happened.
"China wants to be different."
You are conflating the will of the Chinese people with the will of a dictator.
This seems like a weird take on 1989. Romania was a violent struggle. Czechoslovakia involved strikes and protests. The whole was partly driven by the threat of exit via Hungary IIRC. Still seems unlikely that China will go that way, but stranger things have happened.