On July 1, 2019, China’s Communist Party celebrated its 100th birthday. From www.alamy.comContentsChina leads the autocraciesThe rise and fall of democracy‘To get rich is glorious’Technological totalitarianismDemocratic alternatives 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 … Continue reading How China combined authoritarianism with capitalism to create a new communism