I’m sure you’re correct, but I do believe that after the collapse of the USSR it became more apparent to some communist nations that they couldn’t remain viable, and expand, if they didn’t strengthen themselves economically. There has been a dramatic shift since they destroyed their economy with the cultural revolution.
Well, basically what happened is that the CPC went back and read Marx and Engels and saw the commonalities with the Fabian model. Another part of that is where the Manifesto noted that “[t]hese measures, of course, will be different in different countries”, referring to the means to move society towards centralization; but of course, one always makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship, to paraphrase Orwell.