China's not been communist in anything but name for a loong time. Nonetheless, it serves as a nice testing ground for policies eventually implemented by the West as well, sadly.
Well China hasn't really been Communism for a long time. They still hold that name for sure. But for those who know they are even more capitalism then you could imagine.
China is not a communism these days (not sure if it ever was). It’s a market economy, just much less state-controlled/-directed than most Western economies (if you dispute that Western economies are state-controlled, just see US subsidies for agriculture and their political lobbying for Boeing)
You're right, China is only communist in name, not in practice for some time now. I emphasized the word only to point out how we treat anything associated with communism as something to be burned at the stake.
China "communist"? Nominally, but no one here or there actually believes it. It's evolved into some sort of authoritarian regime with elements of state and private sector capitalism.
China is not communist, it's state socialism! No one has ever tried communism.
(Except that they obviously tried state socialism, which is supposed to be the precursor to socialism, which itself is a precursor to communism, but going through the precursor steps to communism doesn't count as trying communism because... reasons.)
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