A member of our parish who is an expert on the Church in China remarked that China is no longer really Communist but is instead a ‘totalitarian market economy”.
You can see something of the Chinese attempt to combine the absolute worst features of the Western Left and the Right in stories like this one.
The bright side is that, in the spiritual desert created by Chinese communism, the Church is growing explosively. It will be hilarious when the day comes that China is sending missions to evangelize the godless West.