No, he said, it was not about to become a Communist state again.

None of these companies want to do business with a Communist state.

By the early 1980s, almost one third of the world's population lived under Communist states.

That situation changed only with the fall of the Communist state in 1989.

In the short run, right now, China is a communist state.

This did not help his career in a communist state.

It is one of the few communist states in the world.

However, as mentioned above, the country had been a Communist state for just over two years.

At one point she referred to the Communist state as "our country".

In practice, communist states do not actually refer to themselves as such.