If the Chinese can gain supremacy of world affairs while paying people more than Americans pay you will see the same flow from America to China.
Certainly at this point in time by most objective measures America is more free, but it is heading in a direction of less free as China heads in a direction of more free. I believe that both trajectories will accelerate in the coming years for purely economic reasons, as America's fiscal position declines it will head towards more restrictive policies while the fiscal boon to China's populace causes more liberal policies to be explored.
Like most organizations the Communist Party in China is more interested in preserving itself than whether a particular policy may be ideologically pure communism.
Certainly at this point in time by most objective measures America is more free, but it is heading in a direction of less free as China heads in a direction of more free. I believe that both trajectories will accelerate in the coming years for purely economic reasons, as America's fiscal position declines it will head towards more restrictive policies while the fiscal boon to China's populace causes more liberal policies to be explored.
Like most organizations the Communist Party in China is more interested in preserving itself than whether a particular policy may be ideologically pure communism.