The dictator's dilemma is about autocratic governments 'need to balance control over their populace's actions, thoughts and words, with receiving accurate, reliable, actionable information from the ground. Be too controlling and all of your underlings will only tell lies to you and you will have a detached understanding of the world, your control becomes fragile when things become heated. Loosen up too much and they start making fun of you and undermine your rule. The situation is made more complicated by the fact that earning trust from an untrusting populace can be hard, so shifting between levels of oppression is a difficult balance to maintain.
This is what rulers in Russia, and now China will be facing. The government wants to put on a good face, and we'll censor ideas and opinions it considers 'bad'. But stopping something from surfacing to popular consciousness is like cutting nerve endings on your body and praying you never encounter a painful situation. Ignoring the symptoms doesn't make the cause go away. It will be interesting to see how the CCP deals with the ongoing unfavorable economic situation...
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