That was their hope that Xi would be an easily controlled puppet. If that was the case, it would still be business as usual without the giant messes of Wolf Warrior diplomacy, the ending of one China two systems policy, and the kidnappings of Jack Ma and other capitalist elites which has led to decoupling and a mass exodus of said elites and as many assets as they can take.

Xi is not their front man. Xi is now their ruler who wants to regress China back to Mao’s system.

The CCP also adopted capitalism. I don't see how they hijacked it.