China will still exist as a great power but as the commoners become richer and more educated they will ask for basic standards in everything, from food and air quality to full transparency on the assets of the political rulers.

China will become a better country on the long run, I have faith in it, wealth will ultimately go to those with skills or the creative ones instead of the corrupt and the land buyout kings. It will be redistributed in a better way as well.

But this won't happen as long the people accept the deal made by Deng Xiaoping, to not mingle with political matters.

Very true. Already there is unrest, and unhappiness about things like the wealth gap, a looming property bubble, inflation, men who will never marry due to the materialistic demands of chinese women, pollution and so on.