On July 1, 2019, China’s Communist Party celebrated its 100th birthday. From www.alamy.com After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela can also be added to the mix as they fulfil the criteria of a communist state … Continue reading How China combined authoritarianism with capitalism to create a new communism