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Indeed, I believe that the only way to make a "coherent" argument that somehow China is ruled by a bourgeois that pretends to be Marxist is through racist stereotypes. Only if you accept the racist trope that the chinese people are always hiding their intentions and are deceptive by nature you could argue that the CPC is in fact deceiving the entire world and their population by posing as communist.
It always goes back to western chauvinism in the end. China is doing something different to how these western ultras think is the One True Correct Path of Socialism, so they find excuses as to why China isn't really socialist because they aren't following the advice of an enlightened westerner who knows what real socialism looks like. A lot of these people claim to be third worldists as well, but are extremely dismissive of the voices of anyone in the third world who disagrees with them.
And to what end? What motivation would they possibly have to do that? I have yet to have someone who believes this weird conspiracy theory answer this simple question: why?