China has multiple political parties, your statement needs more qualifiers. If someone wants to hold a municipal office, they can join other parties for that and many people do.

Oh you’re talking about the eight subservient parties that must acknowledge the CCP’s primacy in order to be allowed to exist? Sub-parties maybe, but even that is generous.

This is a lame excuse because the same can be said of any organization, and yet even western sources acknowledge the high degree of support the CPC has.

It’s not an excuse, it was calling out the unfounded assumption you were asserting in your comment. I’m sure the survey data of people who’s communications are closely monitored are entirely accurate and not at all influenced by fear of retribution. Let me guess, China’s internet is open, uncensored, and unmonitored too?

I don’t think you have either, since people don’t get “disappeared”. The matter of their detention is public record and they typically can return home on weekends, and have generally already gone home because the detention is not indefinite and the program is winding down.

Making more unfounded assumptions. I have been fortunate enough to befriend Uyghur’s who have had family members abducted by the Chinese government. It being a matter of public record is laughable. Do you honestly believe ANY government would create a paper trail let alone make it publicly available for people being held in indefinite detention? Since you’re so knowledgeable I’m sure you can produce some documents. I’m looking forward to looking them over.

Linking a cherry picked articles from two decades ago isn’t the slam dunk you seem to think it is. I’m sure I can jump on google scholar and find a contradicting source.

Ah yes, China’s only political party. I wonder why they have so many members? I’m sure everyone is a staunch believer of the party and it’s values too.

Banning people under the guise of ‘orientalism’ for mentioning the genocide as the OP raised above doesn’t seem unsubstantiated. I’m taking about the genocide that’s currently happening. You ever met a Uyhgur whose family has been disappeared and are unable to return home?

Communists don’t constitue all leftists and there are plenty of communists that aren’t authoritarian apologists and genocide deniers.

Describing tankies as ‘leftists’ seems a bit disingenuous