Let’s hope for the best! Currently it looks like there’s a single party system devoid of meaningful opposition and capitalism is running rampant as long as it serves the party’s interests, but maybe they’ll eventually become a real democracy.

China is already democratic. The fact that it has a unitary socialist democracy rather than a liberal, multi-party democracy does not mean that they are not ruled by the majority. They practice Whole Process People’s Democracy, a form of democracy heavily reliant on the Mass Line. Further, they are socialist, not capitalist, private property itself is not capitalism, nor is said private property “running rampant,” but instead is relegated to the small and medium secondary industries.

Inevitably, this will lead to de-globalisation and I think this can be a good thing, as long as the world powers including China finally do something about climate change and other man-made horrors.

To the contrary, China is fostering genuine globalization and is taking dramatic climate action, including combatting desertification and providing cheap solar panels to the global south.

Thanks for all of the links, you did great work and provided interesting food for thought. I looked at some of them and choose to not engage further with this. I don’t really understand where you’re coming from as you refuted points I didn’t even make – like equating the existence of billionaires with the absence of socialism and similarly, conflating outsourcing as the single criterion for imperialism.

I covered all the usual bases liberals use when declaring China isn’t socialist. The point on outsourcing is that you previously tried to claim China does “the exact same things” as the west, so I drew a hard line between them.

I disagree but you have nice graphs, I hope China keeps developing into the right direction.

They will, thanks to their comprehensively democratic system and the mechanisms fueling positive change in China.