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China is an authoritarian single party state and the regime brooks no individual freedom for it’s citizens other than what it thinks it should. The CP has layers that they will call a democratic process but the reality is that in the main, they rubber stamp decrees handed down from the politburo. In itself a national governing body that I understand is very much dominated by the sitting President. Xi Jinping.I don't agree with your assessment of China as Communist.
The first great schism of Socialism was when Lenin and Mussolini parted company over the basis on which socialism could be established. Lenin argued for internationalism based on a shared class identity, Mussolini argued that it could only be achieved on the basis of a shared national identity.
Mussolini ha sempre ragione and internationalism has failed to gain traction wherever it's been tried. The USSR mutated from international Socialism to national Socialism and China has made the same journey. It is essentially fascist with the quirky relationship between the state and industry and commerce that Fascism generally creates. Unfortunately China has been more methodical about its commercial development than either Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany and is consequently, together with its size, far more formidable economically. Thanks to fanatical globalists and the dim-witted disciples of Fukuyama, it also received a massive boost from the voluntary offshoring of western manufacturing capability and considerable attendant investment.
As if this wasn't concerning enough, Hitler took one step further than Mussolini and conceived of Socialism being achieved on the basis of a shared racial identity, whereupon Fascism mutated into Nazism. It would not take much for Han nationalism in China to go down this path and the Chinese government has shown that it is comfortable with the concept of racial oppression and flirting with genocide, as the Tibetans and the Uighurs would attest.
In short, Western political and commercial shortcomings since the end of the Cold War, particularly those of the US and Germany, have created a monster.
I’d actually describe it currently as a communist state with a Stalinist flavour because of the sitting Presidents penchant for personally dictating national and indeed international policy.
I view communism as just a form of fascism pretending to be in the peoples interests when in fact, it’s more like a dictatorship directing it’s citizens what to do with the threat of severe penalties for those who don’t comply.
What happens in China only happens because the communists under Xi Jinping allow it to happen.
I do think they took notice of the downfall of the Russian communists and have responded by changing their system to one that takes advantage of the capitalist world.
It‘s also allowed them to become much more adventurous outside their own borders and they are taking maximum advantage of that.
China is a threat to democracy and the freedoms that we enjoy. I think that’s indisputable!
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