What source do you have that a majority of China’s economy is publicly-owned? The estimates I’ve heard suggest that it is more like 60-80% privately-owned.

To quote ProleWiki’s article on the CPC:

The CPC is incorrectly referred to as “Chinese Communist Party” (CCP) in Western media, despite the CPC declaring “Communist Party of China” to be the official English translation of its native name. This may be used in order to promote Sinophobia, as well as for propaganda against China (due to the similarity of the acronym CCP to the Cyrillic acronym for the Soviet Union, which is СССР, thus evoking memories of the Red Scare).

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