In which China tells Cuba that it should stop being so communist if it wants to succeed:
China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.
Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said.
It just baffles me that China still gets away with the “we’re communist” narrative. They’re clearly not. They’re authoritarian, and rather socialist, but they’re also quite capitalistic at this point.
It’s not “China” that get’s away with anything, but the Western media that’s branding them as “Communist” as a form of derogatory propaganda to mark them a copy cat of the USSR.
Right from beginning China has always called themselves “PRC”. People’s Republic of China. They are a dictatorial republic akin of Cesar’s Roman Empire, with a government structure based off communist ideology. But their economic policy have always shifted with the times, it was similar to the USSR when they were the fastest growing economy, and now similar to the US.
Why do they call themselves the “Communist Party of China,” then?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
Definitely one of the most capitalist countries
I hate how authoritarian capitalism is often called “communism”
How many countries that claimed they were communist ever really fit the actual definition?
I can’t think of one.