27-11 Hybrid Scenarios, Windows of Opportunity, and Worst-Case Stress Testing

SECTION FOCUS
Real regime endings rarely follow a single path. This section combines leadership crises, splits within the Party, economic and financial collapse, cross-regional resistance, neutrality of the military and police, defeat in war, local autonomy, social violence, and international pressure, seeking the critical windows that may either suddenly magnify the death toll or open a low-casualty turning point. 27-11-1

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• 🗄 CH-027.11.2.2.01　27-11-2-2-1 The right to life; protection of civilians; humanitarian principles; sources of law; and the boundaries of responsibility
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• 🗄 CH-027.11.4.2.01　27-11-4-2-1 The right to life; protection of civilians; humanitarian principles; sources of law; and the boundaries of responsibility
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• 🗄 CH-027.11.4.2.05　27-11-4-2-5 Policy recommendations; international comparison; public authorization; and derivative works for public communication CHAPTER 28 Multiple Pathways of Institutional Succession After the End of the Party-state’s Monopoly Organizational Dissolution, the Transfer of Power, Civil Noncooperation, Local Self-Government, the Return of the Republic, and Democratic Constitution-Making (The Preparatory Phase) CORE ARGUMENT OF THIS CHAPTER. This chapter renders the “elimination of the CCP” concretely as the elimination of the Party’s monopoly over state and society, rather than the annihilation of any category of persons. It takes as its normatively preferred pathways peaceful negotiation, a turn from within the system, civil nonviolent noncooperation, local self-government, the return of the Republic of China’s Republican legitimacy, an interim charter, and democratic constitution-making — among which the “restoration of the Republic” is treated as a focal point of discussion: it regards the Republic of China’s century of reform as a successful exemplar of American-style democracy on Chinese soil, and it advocates augmenting federal self-government and expanding civil rights. At the same time, it studies how, once a violent upheaval, a popular uprising, a split within the military and police, or a loss of local control has already occurred, to swiftly secure a ceasefire and halt violence, protect civilians, preserve public services, limit interim power, and transition to democratic authorization. CONCRETE ENTRY POINT. The negotiating table, the strike site, provisional local assemblies, draft constitutions, and free voting represent different paths of transition; every path must answer who authorizes, who oversees, how civilians are protected, and how a new dictatorship is prevented. SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. Any normative path must pass the tests of the right to life, democratic authorization, due process, and the principle of minimal harm. As for the paths of armed seizure of power, assassination, terrorist attack, popular reprisal, and civil war, this chapter does not treat them as recommended options, yet it must assess their conditions of occurrence, legal responsibility, catastrophic consequences, and the means of moving from established violence to a ceasefire, a provisional legal basis, public oversight, and democratic constitution-making; it does not provide knowledge for carrying out violence. SEPARATING SCENARIO FROM PROPOSAL. Chapter 27 answers “how an upheaval might come about,” and Chapter 28 answers “however an upheaval comes about, how to steer it toward freedom, the rule of law, and minimal harm.” Thus the violent elimination of the CCP may enter the scenario tree as an empirical scenario, but it cannot become a constructive program without being transformed; once it appears, the focus of study shifts at once to halting violence, distinguishing responsibility, the neutrality of the military and police, state continuity, and popular authorization