The NY Slimes, Russian Communists and even some Chinese Communists can't even figure out or admit that the reason China has done so well is that they are NOT Communist. American Marxists, like the Slimes keep talking communism as a political system, like they want it to be.
It's not. It's an ECONOMIC system (and philosophy).
China is not economically communist, they are very close to capitalist, that's why their economy works.
They operate politically as a tyrannical dictatorship that has very rich used to be communists in all the positions of power in the government, but they don't act like economic communists at all. The Slimes and Russians want them to be communist with all their heart, but it just ain't so.
Communist China's economy "works" because America and the West stupidly prop it up.