It's true that I never learn political science seriously.
But, I dislike the idea. And we should not use Western perspective on this one.
Politics exists the moment two or more persons gathered together, even if just for coffee.
Politics exists between friends, men and women, husbands and wives, sibling and sibling, bosses and subordinates, and a monarch to his subjects. There is no such thing as a 'Western' perspective on this. Political science is universal, no matter the language being used, and it is a study about competing interests in a group. Do not tell me that such did not exist in ancient China.
The Chinese Communist Party may not be 'communists' in fact or even in belief, but there is one aspect of communism that they need to keep order in China -- dictatorship. The Party need to be a dictator, like an emperor, to provide the people with at least a facade of a national moral compass. But the Party cannot change its label to be the 'Chinese Dictatorship Party', right? The facade here is that China is being ostensibly guided by an ideology that is supposedly greater than mankind, not just greater than the Chinese and their petty desires. When people are willing to sacrifice their lives to defend an emperor or an ideal, it is a message to observers that for the deceased, their lives to them are petty compared to the object of their passion. And if a life is petty, then how much more petty should money and materialism be?
So did the Chinese Communist Party changed its label to the Chinese Dictatorship Party? No. Despite the fact that every Chinese, from the lowliest peasant to the Secretary General of the Party itself, know that it is a facade, it is perfectly in tune with the human nature -- the desire to believe in something greater than one's self. But to openly support a dictatorship over one's self to the point of making it constitutionally apparent would be too embarrassing, even though every Chinese know that a dictatorship is ruling over them. It is better to live under a facade of communist idealism than to openly admit to the world that we approves our own slavery by a master, or claque of masters, just as petty as ourselves.
China will live wearing this mask for a very long time.