China is getting to the point where both Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin would be horrified at what the country has become. Communism in that country is more like a veneer than anything else.
It is still ruled by commies, real wealth comes from cronyism, the vast majority are still poor
I quite agree. I think modern China has a lot more in common with its old dynastic system. The Party members stand in for the mandarins, and since Mao there has been no Emperor.
Historically, without an Emperor China falls apart due to spectacular corruption in the mandarinate (Party).