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Sustained double-digit growth rates work very well as an unrest suppresion device. Seriously: the Chinese people are simply too busy being vastly wealthier than their parents to notice their lack of personal freedoms or representation in government. It's sad, but true. But it will correct itself eventually, hopefully with less bloodshed this time.
Parts of the Chinese nation are too busy being vastly wealthier than their parents. China has a decent-sized first and comparatively large second world economy embedded in the world's largest third-world economy.
This is true, but the third world economy is not the one that tends to revolt. Tiananmen was driven by students. And that demographic has been effectively pacified by the fantastic urban growth China has experienced over the last two decades.