*They're really, really Communists; they're doing just great being Communists; they're not going anywhere or changing their formula to suit anybody; nobody else can really do what they do the way they do it, because they're Chinese; and compared to them, the USA looks like a banana republic.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/5_myths_about_the_chinese_communist_party
*Also, check out those Communist Chinese steampunk Arabian Nights knockoffs.