This opinion in German media company Deutsche Welle is by Dang Yuan:

China’s Communist Party leaders and political theorists have never lacked imagination when it comes to making the impossible possible. In a bid to legitimize autocracy, they created new ideas that are full of contradictions.    

The preamble of the Chinese constitution refers to China as a “people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class.”

The economic system in place is a “socialist market economy,” which combines private ownership (market) with a responsibility for the collective (socialism).

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