A fine observation.
This form of authoritarianism is best described as corporatism, and is being pursued by the largest of corporations worldwide.
Def. — “a collectivist political ideology which advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, on the basis of their common interests.”
While all the political science experts make distinctions between socialism, Communism, fascism and National socialism, all are versions of collectives in the sense of corporatism.
As with the treaty between Hitler and Stalin before that break, corporatist entities will collaborate until they must compete with each other. And then they will war. One should not ally or appease a "criminal organization," in your words, but that is just what the "new world order" types have been trying to do. For decades.
I expect China to collapse economically quite like the Soviet Union. It's a matter of time.
“One should not ally or appease a “criminal organization,” in your words, but that is just what the “new world order” types have been trying to do. “
Trying my bleep, they ARE those criminal organizations.