Is China still communist?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Chinagirl say yes. No one has gotten rid of evil Goon chan dun. (Communist Party) But they are realy a mafia from Shanghi that is communist in name only. They keep the form of the party so as to keep power for themselves, but they are gangsters intent on keeping the power from the people. Long ago Deng Zhou Ping turned China to Capitalism because it makes more money. He said the it makes no difference if the cat is white or Black, but only if it catches the mice!
So some of the population is happier, The Power elites in Biejing and Shanghi have much more money and now a bigger military too!

Remember also, 20 years ago there was maybe 1 or 2 million Chinese Christians. Now there is 100 million in China that are christian and they have an OFFICIAL christmas day parade in Shenyang, my hometown and Chinas#4 city of 5 million people. They are Communist in name only

Answer 3

China has never been a real communist system, only what Americans refer to communisim as, which is really commoners living a communist lifestyle enforced by the military, while the people, party or organization that rules them lives like monarchs. That isn't communism. that is totalitarianism, with cheap labor.

Answer 4

No China is a Capitalist dictatorship. To be honest there was never a proper working example of Communism, Cuba were the only country that got close to it.

Answer 5

Yes.But Chinese communism(Maoism) is different from Russian Communism understood by the west.It retains the dictator type rule and harsh laws but promotes industries and commerce on modern capitalist lines.The Govt was not able eradicate the Buddhism completely.Chinese communism is a mixture of capitalism and authoritarianism.While the cities continued to grow ,villagers suffer.There is poverty in the villages and poor infrastructure.The strength of China is its ever growing population ,creating increasing demand for production of consumer goods and manufacturting industry..

Answer 6

Yes China is still communist. If they stopped using Led Paint they might get someone with more intelligence than a fish to run their poor country.

Answer 7

Yes...politically speaking China is still communist as well as Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. China's economy is morphing into a market-driven economy.

Answer 8

Communist with capital tendencies. Animal farm in practice.

Answer 9

Mao's image is still in Beijing. It is communist.

In China, Mao is worshiped like a god. Many people in China have started praying to Mao.

Mao is responsible for the deaths of 70 million Chinese.

Answer 10

China is not communist

Nor is it socialistic.

It is also often referred to as totalitarian and a dictatorship.
Both are equally as wrong too.

Communism:
is a the opposite of capitalism so therefore it is impossible they are communistic. The first people who were allowed to use limited capitalism were the farmers back in the 50's because of the failure of collective farming. The whole country is one huge capitalistic machine now.

Socialistic:
means the state controls all production, manufacturing and business. That is impossible as well since individuals own businesses and those state run businesses are a mixture of state and private working side by side. Currently today, less then 20% is state owned. 30 years ago it was 100%. Example, their oil industry is a mix of private and state working together and their cost per gallon of gas is $2.25. There are no taxes added, all the revenue and profits are done before that with both private and state profiting. The USA could do that same, but we'd rather pay $1 more per gallon then allow any kind of socialism to creep into our economy. Our socialism is through war for oil while ignoring what the people really need.

Totalitarian:
means the state controls all aspects of life. That is simply not the case as individuals are free to seek new employment, open businesses, travel at will, immigrate, buy homes, become rich, buy any consumer product they want without permission, in short, do just about anything the people in the west take for granted.

Dictatorship:
They have an election system in place that is at the province level. Those elected officials, who are elected by the people, are then sent to Beijing to represent the people there and those people elect the president, much like many government systems in the world, like Britain.

One party rule:
True, but in recent years the government is encouraging people from outside the party to become involved in government and politics. They can also hold high office, something that was unheard of a few years ago. China understands that it needs new blood in its system in order to survive and do the will of the people otherwise China will stagnate.

What type of government does China have?
At this point, it is hard to say, because it is a mixture of democratic ideals, federalism, socialism, and authoritarian. From what I can see, and how China likes change slowly, that it is slowly morphing into a democratic federal republic, much like the USA has now. But at their own pace, not the instant change that the west demands of China. China is smart enough to know that instant change can have social and political repercussions and its best to take it slowly as to not wake the angry dragon of discontent and descent.

Source:
My experience, living here as an ex pat from the USA
My web site.
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim

http://www.china.org.cn
and see how their system works. Use their search engine and put in the words democracy, then communism, then socialism. You'll probably be surprised at the results you get. Keep in mind, the people read the same things you will read there.

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Looking at the China bashing pragmatically instead of with a blind eye like so many do.

The Amnesty International types of organizations depend on donations to survive. Therefore, they have a vested interest to believe one side of the story while ignoring the other side to keep up the hate and the money coming in.

Therefore, what should be done is we need to look into the lifestyle of the CEO's of these organizations, what percentage of donations goes into education vs administrative, salaries, etc.

What I find disingenuous with so many people is they will selectively believe these organizations on issues they want to believe, while condemning them on issues they don't want to believe.

Much of the information comes from people who have a ax to grind, or the information is collected from 3rd and 4th parties. Remember, we went to war in Iraq, in part, because of the word of ex pats who made claims that have since been disproved, even outright lies.

I live here in China as an ex pat from the USA and teach in a college. I expected to meet dissidents, and to date, I have not met one. The people in China seem to be very apathetic and it took me a long time to figure out why. It's because they have more freedom then anytime in their history and they are grateful for that. The biggest complaint I have heard about the government from students is they don't spend enough on education.

A final thing to ponder is Tianamen Square. Few in the states know why it started. It was because the government cut back on college spending and the students were upset. It morphed into a democracy movement and the crowds were huge only because the people were curious. The reason the movement was brutally crushed (I do not support that) is because with world wide attention, plus it was all over the Chinese news that the government appeared to be weak and could possibly be overthrown. The aftermath of that, is anyones guess what they would have ended up with. We are now seeing what instant change has done in two countries that we have gone to war with that never had democracy before and have a long history of human rights abuses.

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They have a very stable society and government.
Foreign companies are not afraid to invest there.
China learns by its successes and mistakes.
China is a very old and wise country.
China has an over abundance of brain power
China is very innovative.
China is not afraid to go outside of their country for answers to questions and problems they have.
China is very careful not to let foreign investment take over like they allowed to happen two centuries ago.
China plans for the future through five year and one year plans that are changable.
China's government is slowly morphing into a federal democratic republic, much like the USA but at their own pace.
China realizes that to limit people in government only to one party is counter productive and in recent years is encouraging people outside the party to become involved in government and even run for office.

China is much of what we want her to be and little of what we think she is.

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Peace

Jim