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I wouldn't say we viciously defend it, after all even if China wasn't socialist it'd be worth defending from an anti-imperialist perspective. China emerged from years of colonial subjugation (the century of humiliation) after the Chinese revolution, and built what is today the only country capable of challenging US world domination.
Really though, China's massive improvements in life expectancy, real wages, and living standards show that its socialist, planned system is working.
No system is perfect, especially in a transition away from world capitalism, and subordinating the market economy to the will of the CPC, to provide for the needs of the people, and protecting China from western interventionism, remain the most important tasks for the CPC.
As far as "China not being communist":
Sorry sweaty, but 24/25 is not good enough and revisionism. Don't you know that billionaires = revisionism as well?
Plus, economy success is a terrible way of measuring the socialistness of a nation. It means unequal development, which is a thing that exists under capitalism which means, you guessed it! Revisionism! The only true way to be a socialist nation is for everyone to be equally poor and struggling and ideologically pure. We can't allow a single non-socialist in a socialist country, regardless of if they hold political power or not. A people's democracy means doing what is purest and not actually listening to the people after all.
/s (I do have my own issues with China's unequal development, but I can also recognize when the CPC actively aims to improve things on that front. China didn't freeze in place in 1978.)