The western empire makes them look like angels on earth by comparison. But they are more complicated than that, struggling through the implementation of theory and learning from practice, as one should expect from a transition-based communist vanguard state project. They share a position of deserved praise for their accomplishments along with other AES projects, along with deserving fair assessment from good faith comrades looking to ensure mistakes are caught and corrected along the way. They are on the path to play a very defining historical role for decades to come, which is a lot of responsibility, and it is on international comrades as a shared responsibility to ensure they have support in the struggle for liberation and are not being expected to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.

It's very important that they not end up in a position of overextending beyond what they can manage on their own and I think being careful of that is a lesson they consciously learned from the USSR's failures. One of their aims seems to be to nurture an international world of sovereign countries who have win-win connections with themself (China) and with others. This helps materially weaker countries shake off the yoke of imperialism and become capable in their own right, which furthers the goal of liberation, while avoiding the problem of dependency on China as a burden that it can't carry.

For me, it's hard not to put them on a pedestal, considering how well they do compared to the west and its barbarism. But they are still human and it is important to remember that, so that we understand we can do like them in other countries; that it's not out of reach, but it is a protracted, organized struggle and one they have had to go through themselves in order to reach the relative prosperity they have achieved. A struggle that continues for them now and which is perhaps reaching one of its most important points in history, considering the disproportionately influential role they can play in what shapes the international landscape going forward.