China is not a communism these days (not sure if it ever was). It’s a market economy, just much less state-controlled/-directed than most Western economies (if you dispute that Western economies are state-controlled, just see US subsidies for agriculture and their political lobbying for Boeing)
I dispute this. China has always been a communist country. Once Mao took over, he made the country a single party system and treated the whole country and its people as an extension of the military.
China took this kind of social-government structure and paired it with a central director, persistently and steadily marching towards a self-sustainable future, at the expense of the freedom and prosperity of its people. Chinese had difficult time buying in the world economy due to a surpressed currency. The gains were seized by its government.
The power was more centered on its government and its government delivered, but not without losses. Famine, environmental waste, and loss of property were all ways through which they learned.
All in all, China took the world's developments and owned them. They stuck with poverty and low income to keep their efficiency super high.
The only free markets that exist are in employment systems. Everything else is state chartered, controlled, or influenced.
