Communism
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They're aren't perfect but they're a force of damn good over all with building projects in their nation along with others vs bombing and instigating battles, standing up the US and mostly being chill rather than outright hostile, not to mention they care a lot more about their people than the US does, lifting the most out of poverty and all. Even if they weren't socialist as few here have written, you have to admit that's laudable.
Even going back to Engels you don't get from socialism to communism overnight, its a multistep process. I think Xi has helped soften some of the contradictions Deng left sharp with opening trade, but back in the day that just had to be done to adjust to material conditions of the time and prepare for the turn of the century and the US hegemony. To have the people ultimately control the market is a good step toward getting to later stages of socialism and some future time, communism. Deng's method wasn't pretty and errorless, but reality rarely is, you can't daydream of the best instant-communism perfect no-error just add revolution, its just not founded in reality, we're working in a material earth with a complex history and relations between people. They don't simply 'go away'.