China produces nearly twice the carbon dioxide emissions as the second largest carbon dioxide producer, USA. China is a communist state.
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
Yet its market operates more like a capitalistic one.
It's also not entirely fair to point the finger wholly at China on CO2 output when Europe and the US have effectively outsourced their manufacturing and most polluting processes to companies over there.
They've in a sense found a way to use Marx's critique of capitalism towards its opposite intent. Marx saw the authoritarianism inherent in the market and how it was tied to wage labour exploitation? The Chinese Communist party has harnessed that authoritarianism to increase exploitation to its maximum.
The Communist Party in China are as "communist" as the later Roman emperors were "Christian."
No, therefore China is not a communist state. It is one in name only. Its economy is extremely capitalistic.
China is, actually, the living proof capitalism works a lot better without a democracy holding it back.
Marx's commentary on so-called democratic states: "The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" rings quite true today. In China they've perfected this by getting the pesky petty grumbles of the population out of the way.