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Who holds the political power in China? Therein lies your answer as to what is China.
On executive level? Princelings.
In the NPC? Worker representatives are 15% vs 50% in the 1970's. So... bureaucrats and the princelings?
Worker in the statistic youre quoting is just manual labour and farmers you realise that right?
This was pointed out to them before, they are repeating this dishonest framing because they're a Polish nationalist. They pulled a quote from Marx talking about how bad the French state was and applied it to the USSR.
Unfortunately not surprising.
A single group of elites who decide who leads as the next president without any input from the people. This is exactly the definition of concentrated power.