Yes, it is.
"What's the weirdest about all this is that China's rulers run its economy EXACTLY like the worst capitalist robber baron a liberal could imagine, committing all the sins of environment, worker abuse, and accumulation of power that capitalism is saddled with in their views."
Those are the necessary preconditions and early stages in the evolution of any Capitalist economy, before they are restrained
and perfected by liberal policies and reforms and develop into humane and democratic economic systems.
Hopefully, it won't take them a century of conflict to get the bugs out like it did us and Europe..