Not in practice, but they do claim to be (and in fairness, do some things in a more “socialist” way - looking at you privatisation in the west…)

I think this what OOP means with “aesthetics”, it’s that they claim to be a socialist state, when in many ways, it’s rather capitalist.

Regardless, holding up any country as a beacon of all that is good is pretty silly, if you ask me.

No where (that I know of) should be emulated in every regard.

Could it be China? But they aren’t Socialist.

Take that up with tankies, who will argue long and passionately that China is actually very socialist.

I think Xi self identifies as Marxist Leninist