When I look at other communist nations, they were invaded, couped, and/or sabotaged at every opportunity, and (forgive me, my history of China is weak) while I’m sure that China faced obstacles from capitalists outside of the country, it somehow rose up to be the power that it is today while the USSR fell, Vietnam and Korea got bombed to hell and back, Cuba was put under crippling sanctions, and surely countless other uprisings got squashed young.
But china didn’t just survive, they thrived. How?
~ 1.4 billion people vs. ~ 25 million, as well as having a small fraction of total territory would account for a lot
Not to mention, you know, being sanctioned to hell and back and being bombed into the past within living memory.