HONG KONG -- While many foreign press reports recently stressed the ways in which China was becoming more capitalist, only London's Financial Times cautioned readers about how the country remains indubitably communist.
While the rules of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are being changed to admit entrepreneurs, the constitution was changed so that communist cells will permeate private enterprise in future.
Many foreign media reports conveyed the simplistic image of a nation that was ceasing to be communist. The changes to Article 32 of the CCP charter suggested, to the contrary, that private enterprise within China would not be wholly private.
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