As far as China goes, the culture has been under empiric, feudal rule for the last 5000 years, including the present day under the CCP, and submission to authority is arguably built into their DNA after all that time. Executing dissidents for thousands of years has a way of invoking natural selection upon the populous.
Chinese people rebel when the Emperor cannot feed them. Expect 40 years of bad weather because we entered a Grand Solar Minimum. No Chinese government has ever survived a GSM.