The analogy obviously isn’t perfect, but Trump reminds me in some respects of Bo Xilai: a swaggering, tough-talking, self-styled crime fighter who succeeded in building a base of popular support outside of the usual Communist Party channels. The Chinese oligarchy (correctly) viewed him as a threat, and crushed him. The GOP establishment had no such luck with Trump, so the job of ruining his reputation and career will be left to the American electorate as a whole.
The lesson here is that politics in the two systems are not as completely different as we imagine. The drama in the Chinese system, however, mostly takes place outside of the public eye.