“No it’s fascist.
Just like the United States’ government.”
Exactly! China is about as non communist as you can get.
The essence of communism is no private property or enterprises. China and the US lead the world in both.
Fascism on the other hand allows both free enterprise and private property, as long as it doesn’t run afoul of the powers that be.
China is a one party fascist dictatorship. We’re not far from that.
And if one really stops and thinks about it, authoritarianism has been the default human governance for most of human history. From tribes, to kingdoms, to empires, to dynasties.