um china's not communist.... it's capitalist. we just think they are communist since they have been for a long time. in reality they are capitalist with convictions and censorship just about the same as our dear own founding pilgrims.
anyway here is how communism doesn't work, in a place more communist, like north korea.
a shoe factory has an order from the government to make 10,000 shoes with a certain amount of leather. the factory is by some chance unable to procure half as much leather because of weather famine so forth. Those 10,000 shoes still have to be made. And guess what, it will be with half as much leather, because the manager does not want to let the government down.
that's pretty much how old communist china was. things are more capitalist now with more open markets, but communism does not endorse quality in the slightest.
COMMUNISM= quantity over quality
DEMOCRACY=quality over quantity
CORPORATISM(which is what the US is)=Money over everything
edit:sry capitalist is a market strategy, not a gov. China is more like a communist/democratic hybrid. with more emphasis on dictatorship.
