China wants to be a rich, prosperous and powerful country. This contradicts the Maoist tents of an equal, poor and blank country.
But Maoism is nonsense and his heirs understand that China could not be all things to all people. As an emerging middle class country, its still governed by authoritarian politics.
But the improvement in the every day lives of the people has been tremendous. They call the new system, “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Communism is always communism, and so one must be aware of communist disinformation as practiced by Lenin and the KGB, and later in China, to understand their motivations. They are committed to the destruction of “liberal democracy,” and, because we are weak, they may just succeed, leaving lots of dead American patriots.