No, they are not.
When was their last election?
...and despite what you may say Tibet, N. Korea, Vietnam, India, expansion into the choke points o the S. China and China seas, their threatening of the ROC and even Los Angeles, their rapidly growing influence in Central and South America, their recent veiled threats to Japan and Australia...all attest to classic communist expansionism goals and traits.
If it quacks like a duck, walks ike a duck, defecates like a duck, eats like a duck, and smells like a duck...chances are it is still a duck IMHO...in spite of the fact that they have adapted their failed Maoist economic model to a command market model.