"The deepening chasm between the Party and the people is due to the fact that both have changed, particularly urban people -- and of course the Party has become a pit of corruption. "The government’s credibility is crumbling," says Yu Guoming, an opinion researcher at People’s University in Beijing. “People don’t trust it anymore” ... The nature of the dictatorship is different ... because they’ve made an unspoken deal with the people: we’ll see to it that things improve economically, and you do what you have to, to get along with us." (Quoted from article)