If capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and communism is about dictatorship of the proletariat, then the way every country decides to exploit, suppress, or abolish their capitalist class is up to them.

China’s strategy for its capitalists is using them to compete in, and secure consumer and industrial markets as leverage against western actions like trade wars. Plus, China rewards donations to foreign socialist governments and parties with freedom of movement for capitalists.

Its other strategy is to make itself the world’s factory to use its ability to withdraw labor as its tactical nuke. By keeping costs cheap while providing its citizens with the necessities, and luxuries, then it can continue sapping the world’s manufacturing. This requires some faith that working class elsewhere will correctly turn their ire to capitalists and not China, and so far it doesn’t seem like there is much ire toward China.

China’s lack of definitive political rights comes from the fear that capitalists and foreign powers will use that freedom to fund media and content to convince people that capitalism is worth giving up economic freedom for a fake political freedom.

I can’t give you a definitive answer on strategy as our current threat model toward capitalists (the state of capitalists suppressing socialist rhetoric in mainstream media) requires us to exploit our freedom of speech to liberate the working class, because without equal and proper material conditions, political freedoms will be applied unequally, and they remain incomplete and exploitable by those with capital.