Well China is not really communist now. It is a one-party political system where the dominant party is communist. That may seem absurd to the Western mind, but it makes sense to them. They would point out that a two-party system is worse, as it only creates unproductive bipartisan conflict; a 3-party system doesn't fix it, as the third party detracts from minority power; so the only alternative which would be more democratic is a four-party system, which, historically, has been shown to be unworkable. Thus their way makes sense to them.

One should consider, in their one-party system, a citizen has far better representation than in the USA. The top-level voting party was an incredible delegation of 7,000 in Beijing. Each of those 7,000 represent the local jurisdictions. In the local jurisdictions, the total number of party members has been impossible to know until recently, as the benefits of computers and the information age have finally started to reach into the slowly more wealthy proletariat. The Communist Party gained 1.1 million members in 2014, taking the ruling organization's membership to almost 88 million, a figure greater than the population of Germany. According to party communiques, 2014 party membership continued a rising trend of 1.3%t year-on-year. With China's 2015 population reported as '1,376,048,943,' That means 1 in 15 are a member of the party, and each has voting rights in party decisions. This compares with, for example, the State of California, where each assembly member represents 485,000 Californian citizens.

Moreover, in China, national representation is even more superior. Each national delegate in China represents ~12,500 party members and ~200,000 Chinese citizens. By comparison, each congressman in Washington DC represents ~760,000 Americans. Furthermore, every member of the Chinese Communist party has equal voting rights.

This all leads to the following rather surprising conclusion.China's government may have been something we used to deride as obviously inferior, but it has evolved to provide far better democratic representation than the USA, and meanwhile, the USA government is still protecting the rights of citizens to bear muskets against the threat of slave rebellion. So the tables have turned.

It's all capitalism. Everywhere. It's precisely what's killing war. Everything is owned by internationally spread and tied corporations, so that one can't pay for war by conquest, that's stealing now.

What matters is keeping things running smoothly, and promoting growth and infrastructure, which is far more profitable than war, shared visions or ideologies. Wes talkin' dollars.