China isn’t a communist country, it’s a totalitarian country.
Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control. Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society.
Being an open country has upsides and downsides certainly. The same could be said for Russia/China’s information war exploiting freedom of speech on those not educated in critical thought.
Communist country figures out how to exploit capitalism better than capitalist country, how poetic.
China isn’t a communist country, it’s a totalitarian country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Communism is defined as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
It calls itself communist just like a big chunk of the world calls itself capitalist but doesn’t let the market regulate itself
North Korea calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Do you also refer to North Korea as a Democratic country?
If I was making a similar comment using North Korea and in relation to democracy I would 100% exploit the fact that it calls itself a democracy.
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Being an open country has upsides and downsides certainly. The same could be said for Russia/China’s information war exploiting freedom of speech on those not educated in critical thought.