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I regret making this original comment at all. It was stupid. I apologize to all.

China "communist"? Nominally, but no one here or there actually believes it. It's evolved into some sort of authoritarian regime with elements of state and private sector capitalism.

It's a lot like the US really, except that the country's rulers basically choose each other directly, instead of being chosen in a public election with rigged choices. Also, it has much more direct state control and ownership of certain industries and companies, but that's not completely unlike what happened with, for instance, the big auto bailout a decade ago.

Ok China has a supposedly communist regime but it is effectively not a communist economy.

China's economy isn't very communist anymore. Also the things that are helping (at least anecdotally, according to family on lockdown now) have more to do with the ability to effectively implement quarantine than their economic system (which, again, isn't really a communist economy).

There's still definitely a communist party regime, for sure.

"Communist" in name only. The party is really just an authoritarian party.