1. Very major companies (Haier, Lenovo) are OWNED by the Communist Red Chinese government.
2. The government presumes to tell people how many children they can have. If you try to get around it, reactions vary from being physically forced for an abortion and sterilization, to having your family or whole community fined a massive (for them) amount.
3. Catholics and other Christians have to meet state approval, the real Roman Catholic Church does not meet Red Communist Chinese tests because the Pope cannot cede spiritual authority to the Communist Party.
Whatever you want to classify the Red Chinese, they are just as bad as ever. Perhaps worse as they now have economic leverage over the entire world.
I mentioned most of those points in my article, especially regarding the human rights situation. I agree with you that the Chinese government has a long way to go but I still stand by my original point that China is no longer a communist country based on its economic transformation in the past 30 years.