'let everything turn to poop under his watch (especially now as...

'let everything turn to poop under his watch (especially now as he has stacked the parliament with his loyalists).'

As you say, dictators are generally primed to manipulate - people, economies, other states - but history shows us that each and every one of them comes unstuck at some point. There has never been, in recorded human history, a dictatorship or authoritarian regime that succeeded absolutely and none that lasted in the long run... no matter XIs' opinion of himself, he is just another of us human beings and with all the same flaws, doubts, fears and inconsistencies as the rest of us... and he is ultimately a politician.
Lord knows, the democratic ones are bad enough... crass, posturing, incompetent non-entities for the most part. Selfish, greedy, grasping, back-stabbers with no grasp of policy or vision.. focused only on their vast tax payer subsidised ego-trip. Fortunately most are voted out before they do any real harm.
Dictators, on the other hand are far more dangerous.. they actually believe in things, ideologies and other such troubling nonsense... a real threat to stability of countries, regions and all who have to suffer their self delusion and ego mania. Let us hope that the current chinese regime does not overreach in its manic ideology and cause disruption to global stability or trouble for exports of IO.