A news flash:
China has not been and is not now "Communist" in the original meaning and historical experience of the term for a couple of decades. Lazy journalism ....
They are still an oligarchy, but one may argue over how dictatorial - good or bad.
The question arises - and it is a difficult one - how would one transition a huge country of 1.4B people and various regional interests from failed socialism into a working democracy per Western model ? Counting 1.4 B potential votes is not trivial  .-)
They are making brilliant economic progress, rapidly becoming global number 1 in R&D expenditure, never mind manufacturing ..... No more "Mao's Little Red Book" nonsense.
And by way of reference: How is our own governance doing ???! Up to our eyeballs in debt, curly hair wins elections, and I cannot even transport a beer across provincial boundaries  .-)
Methinks we should get off our pedestal ....