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Just because it calls itself the Communist Party doesn't mean it is.
China has, to some extent, free enterprise and a market economy, the government is not administrating all of the people's resources, therefore it is not Communist.
Even if it's Communist Party is truly perfectly Communist, and all of it's members worship Marx, then the country is not Communist because of it's policies and the way it's economy is administrated.
China can say what it wants to, the world can call it what it wants to, but the fact is that Communism is a defined word. A defined way of running a country, or at least a section of it's policies, if a country or organization does not conform to that, it is not Communist.
SpiritWarrior: Generally anything related to Democracy, free speech, etc. is blocked, to prevent people getting dangerous ideas. "Useful" knowledge is not blocked, in fact I think China would generally not prevent any sort of technical knowledge from being passed on(Unless we're talking stuff like the Anarchist's Cookbook.).
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