Exactly they use ideas that may have a base in communism but if you‘ve ever taken the effort in reading what real communism means you‘d know China is no communist state.
It is a mix of several political ideas and capitalism is also a big part of it - it’s the part that leads other nations to produce goods at the cheapest rate there so they can say they’ve done everything they could to save the workers human rights.
The truth is that companies like Apple etc very well know that people there are treated like slaves - but profit is more important than human lives...
Microsoft Windows‘ unstoppable telemetry is another really important note!
Also somehow every experiment that tries to free us from this spyware (e.g. Munich Officials tried to use Linux) gets overpowered with someone throwing money at politicians who immediately change back everything to Windows...
Yes it is. Our communication is directly searchable by US secret service who have their office at DECIX for example.
Also we are used by US forces to deploy US military to the east of Europe to anger the Russians without being able to stop it.
Since WW2 they never really gave back control to us and nowadays they even support nazis again because they are so afraid of liberal & leftist thoughts and politics.
They don’t even try to hide that, if you keep your eyes open you can see it...
If you’ve ever been to China to see how people live (if you can call that a life) you see the hypocrisy in that.