China might never have been communist. Where was anything communist? They call it communism and they rule with an iron hand and do mass murder like nobody in all of history... then they try to sell us on their ascendancy to being the economic light of the world and in line to have the reserve currency!! The MSM carries on with that program because they are Marxists, they did the same thing with South Africa, it's now a crime ridden shithole...
The West will sort the current mess out, realize that Socialism can never be properly funded, tell everybody to get off their lazy ass and get their own food, water, housing, medicine etc, to stfu and stop whining.. and bank some coin for their retirements while they are at it... and maybe people will even stop buying stuff made out of plastic just to keep China from ascending to Masters of the Material Plane or whatever it is they think they should be...