They have pretty much the best controlled media and distract-the-plebs setup in that country just behind the West.
It can be used to block and deflect the shame of a big landgrab flop, but that is only from our side, many more things could happen that could rock Xi's boat, our victory may be a wave, his boat is hit with other such waves and it will capsize.
A large chunk of CCP politicians are greedy chors, and preferred the pre-Xi era where it was "lay low and make big bucks", but they are scared of his gulag-sending, asset-freezing skills so they shut up.
The time when many such negative events strike is when their media machine won't be able to spin it away, and Xi will be given the boot or meet a "natural death"