A Ruthless Person: The CCP does not not want to 'North Koreanize', but it cannot afford to. Once the rationing system is introduced, the finances will die first; once hereditary succession is touched, the shares of millions of bureaucrats will be wiped out. The tube inserted by reform and opening up is connected to its finances on one end and to the mortgages of hundreds of millions of people on the other; pulling the tube is equivalent to suicide. It can only keep the tube inserted and replace the nurses with prison guards.