China is classified as a communist state which statement pest proof this classification.

Beginning in 1969, the great leader of communist China began to employ a more conciliatory policy, reestablishing contacts with the West. In 1971, China was accepted into the United Nations (UN). After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Deng Xiaoping initiated an economic opening allowing foreign investments to encourage competition, profit and even consumerism. In this sense, there was no political opening based on democratic principles. An evident example of this lack of political openness was the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Today, China is going through a phase of great material progress.