They have little to lose by doing so anyways! Like, they don't even have to go full leftcom perspective. They don't have to say shit like "China no longer abides by the principles a Marxist-Leninist state would abide by and has abdicated its responsibility to the proletariat and only uses leftist aesthetics to convince them that it still has an interest in maintaining the dictatorship of the working class," they can just dogwhistle it and it would still work