HellworldInhabiter22 [they/them,any]

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel is very thorough and detailed, and it mostly spares you the annoying moralizing that a lot of English-language authors feel compelled to use when writing about geopolitical rivals. It's like 700 pages so be prepared but all in all a good resource.

Most likely what will happen after topping is the plant will fork into two large branches at the closest node to where you topped the plant. The plant will still try to grow mostly upwards with these two branches, and they'll probably grow their own suckers. This is assuming your plant is indeterminate.

I usually don't have much luck with topping off a plant, then trying to root the cutting from that. I'm sure its possible but I usually just throw it in the compost bin.

1. Tomatoes should be able to grow new flowers out of suckers. As far as I know, old branches won't grow any new flowers.
2. I've had cuttings of suckers root in less than a week. I have better luck with younger growth. You also will want to cut off most of the leaves from a cutting, otherwise it'll be spending all its energy keeping existing growth alive rather than growing new roots. I've had other parts of the tomato plant root, but suckers tend to work the best.

lmao there's 45 volumes of lenin's works on Marxists.org no way any of us have read "all of Lenin"

Peppers take an eternity to ripen. You can harvest them while they're still green if you want. They'll taste mostly the same, maybe a little bit less spicy.