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No, we can't, because that's an absurd premise.
Socialism is a mode of production. It isn't when you import more than you export, or vice-versa. In the PRC, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, while medium and small firms have diverse forms of ownership like private, cooperative, and joint-stock. It's in the primary stage of socialism.
The idea that the PRC isn't socialist is a "left" wing fallacy among Statesians. In the PRC, socialist countries like Cuba and Vietnam, and among major communist orgs, the PRC's status as a developing socialist country is not in question.
You haven't made any arguments as to why China is capitalist, just that it exports, but in reality it is import driven economies that are the most capitalist, and that isn't even a rule, just a generalization.
https://www.ie.edu/insights/articles/is-china-a-communist-country/
Though you'll probably deny this article as valid because it harms your perception of China being a Communist state, and usually people do not like they're conspiracy theories to be challenged by actual fact.
Additionally, besides the argument of whether it's communist or not, it is not a good country and if that's what communism looks like, then I actually want no part in communism. They have no ability for free speech or even protests. Say what you want about it's economics, but that is not how humans should be forced to live.
Dawg what.
Literally the reason the government ended the covid lockdowns, despite that being the correct course of action that saved shitloads of lives, is because people got tired of it and protested, and the government listened.
Meanwhile here in the states, every protest I've ever been part of has been stomped down by riot cops and had it's demands ignored.
I'm sure they're all crying and cursing their doubled lifespans
Please Xi, my people yearn to be forced to live like that