While that is a possibility, China is not going to have freedom break out like people think.
While they have had some "freedom" recently, it's actually just economic freedom for the well connected class. Political, social & religious freedoms have been systematically and brutally repressed without result.
The government has an iron grip on all the communication networks already and already actively censors everything down to people's text messages to eliminate anything they don't like... you send a text message with something they don't like.. it never makes it & you get put on a list for a visit.
So actual news can be very slow to get from one area to the next.
Unlike other countries, the Chinese Communists have no problem killing as many millions as it takes to keep them in power & have their own army under their own direct control to carry it out. A small sample was proved back the last time protesters tried to gather in a square... and since then just mentioning it will get you thrown in jail. They will not hesitate to have the army kill by the hundreds of thousands at a go in order to maintain control. The current dictator for life has shown that unlike his recent predecessors, he believes power is his by right & he will maintain it at all costs.
Take a look at the Brutal repression of Uighurs that China has been doing for years now (which we turn a blind eye to, because since they are Muslims, apparently it's fine to do wholesale genocide and oppression). The best reports smuggled out of the area show hundreds of thousands either vanished or in "reeducation camps". The conspiracy theorists here that worry about FEMA camps in the USA should take a look at North China to see how it actually happens in a big way in real life.
I don't foresee Chinese Communist rule coming to an end from internal pressures. I see us having to fight a war with them and how bad that is we don't know. But when the war comes, either we go all out to win and practically wipe out all their modern facilities, or we loose. The Chinese lost around 1 million conscripts in the Korean war and they count that as a Glorious national victory....