When you have abject socialism in a marxist model on the domestic policy front (ie. personal freedoms), when you have a totalitarian government enforcing those policies-along with their new fascist economic model, when you have a government heirarchy that calls itself communistic, still preaching and teaching...and cotrolling the nation along those lines...and they do...then I would call it communist. You can call it whatever you want.
The bottom line is that the Red Chinese are a totalitarian government that is bent on abject control of their population, and hegonomy in the region. They are headed for (and preparing for) conflict with the only major power that can interfere with that, and that is US.
"The bottom line is that the Red Chinese are a totalitarian government that is bent on abject control of their population, and hegonomy in the region. They are headed for (and preparing for) conflict with the only major power that can interfere with that, and that is US."
Interestingly enough, when I was over there last time, they are putting down digital cable services (they already have normal cable service but do not have these channels) in cities like Jinan (pretty small compared to Shanghai, only 4-5 million people) and with the cable services, they get Hong Kong news which typically openly criticizes Beijing and we saw quite a few commentors on this subject. I saw the same type of channels in Shanghai as well. They could easily remove the channel or the type of programming, but they don't. So either it's changing, or it's losing control or both.