China is not, of course, turning back to proper communism. It is a wildly corrupt dictatorship, and will be for the foreseeable future. It was an oligarchy for

China is not, of course, turning back to proper communism. It is a wildly corrupt dictatorship, and will be for the foreseeable future. It was an oligarchy for many generations (traditionally, their central committee was allowed to preserve opposing opinions among factions, a practice Xi extinguished), but Xi has definitely removed the vast majority of his competent opponents.