General Discussion

what they call the Party is what we call the government. Both administer a State.

Big difference: recently, the franchise here is universal (after women and Blacks got the vote). Over there, the franchise is limited to members.

Here is what I see as the effective difference:
In China, they built brand-new hospitals within weeks of covid "coming out". After the first impulse to hush it up, they lost comparatively few people to covid.
In the US, our leader said it would go away like magic. We lost about three times as many people as we did from all causes in WWII - in half the time.