And money still talks big in China as it always has except for some years after the Long March. . . and perhaps after the cultural revolution.
But Beijing still has the capacity to close down virtually any enterprise and take it's leaders out and shoot them. And they don't exactly hesitate much if they decide to do it.
Corruption is still a huge problem. And the government doesn't really know how to deal with it because it's so rife with it. Alliances are still the way most things are done.
Beijing still has the capacity to close down virtually any enterprise
Chinese want to get rich off of capitalism, not kill capitalism. Capitalism is power and the more capitalism, the more power, so there's not really an incentive for China to return to Marxism and become poor and weak again anytime soon.