There is no problem in the P.R.C, contrary to what assumptions you may have drawn from these attacks. Although singular "lone wolf" attacks are somewhat common against the local political system, the Chinese government has been extraordinarily efficient in rooting out dissidents that could potentially organize a full revolution. The government also focuses strongly on cultivating a sense of nationalism, which helps to bind the people together and make them appreciate the state. For example, state-owned and operated museums show almost nothing but the successes of the CCP.
On a separate note, there is another reason why there will not be a revolution in China. Oppression by the state has become a fact of life for the community, and most people do not even notice that the state is actively trying to do so. My cousin in China routinely gets around the so-called "Great Firewall", and this is common among the younger, more IT-savvy generation. To them, the firewall is part of daily life, but they never question exactly why it was put in in the first place. Perhaps their elders know why, but discussions about politics in China rarely go beyond complaining about bureaucracy and corruption, never about the oppressive nature of the system as a whole.
Finally, there are simple demographic reasons for why China will never have a revolution. To have a revolution, you have to have an oppressed, mistreated and poor underclass. This is near-nonexistent in China due to several reasons - the economic boom ensures that there is a chance of prosperity for every worker (whether that can happen is another matter) and the lower classes do not have the intelligence or technology to raise revolution. In comparison, Egypt had a distinct class of college/university level graduates who were underpaid/unemployed due to the poor economy. With nothing else to do, they blamed the state, seeing that it was an oppressive dictatorship, and organized revolution with Facebook. By contrast, China's underclass can do literally nothing against the state - even the middle class will not join them in revolution as they are too secure to even consider it.
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