False. Tell it to the PLA (even a liberal CNN appears to let slip a lot of real truth while trying to spin it liberal), and read the CCP-controlled Chinese Constitution. It is FULLY enforced today. Not just a little. No wiggle room. Read it. Comprehend it.
Then you will understand what Deng Xiouping meant when he told his fellow hardliners..."It doesn't matter whether you call the cat black or white, so long as it catches mice."
A friend told me in a discussion last year that he viewed China as a threat solely based on the communist government. Having been to the mainland once before (in 2001), I can say that China is no longer communist from an economic standpoint. There's a rising middle class, and that's something that would not have worked out half a century ago.
That's what I mean by "in name only."
Now, from the political standpoint? Yes, the CCP is still in firm control. There are many American freedoms that don't exist in China.
Communist or not, the U.S. and the PRC have diplomatic relations. The same cannot be said of Iran and North Korea. I believe those two nations pose far greater threats to the U.S. than China.