Genuine question so please don’t hate on me. It seems to me that china now is more of a mixed market than a planned economy. Billionaires and class disparities definitely still exist in China and it seems like american communists almost romanticize china while ignoring obvious flaws in its system, only because they (rightfully) hate america and america hates China. China also supplies all of the world’s exploitative corporations with the vast majority of their goods. While China is probably better than the capitalist economies of the west, I don’t understand why a lot of people seem to hold it in the same regard as the USSR.
The CIA / US has forgotten the only thing that gave them any success in the Cold War - assume the other side has at least as many resources and tech as you have.
The US can’t handle opposition spying with countries that can have their own end-to-end spycraft tech. The whole strategy of backdoors in tech only works if the manufacturer works for you.