Muslim countries can't do it because of their hypocritical nature they try to ban and regulate everything, including things not related to regime's survival. They set absolutely unrealistic bar and never hit it.
On the other hand, Chinese regime is very pragmatic. They offer their internet where they only change a little. This they can do without making the whole thing unusable.
China's tyranny is religious. Their religion is called "communism", is not that people in China is free to believe what they want.
If you go to China you will see that family is very strong there, altars for dead family members are in lots of houses.
Communism is a mystical collectivist ideology, that proclaims the magic will of the people can make the impossible, possible. It pretends to bring reality under the rule of the subjective whim, such that if enough people believe something then it will be so. That's classic doctrine however, and it's questionable how much of that style of Communism still exists in China, they seem to be far more practical in their application.
| More specifically they worship the state.
The government didn't replace religion, but they do control it. There's an PRC sanctioned sect of Christianity. Buddhist monks in Tibet need to be registered Communist party members.
| it's questionable how much of that style
| of Communism still exists in China
You can, and a lot of people are buddhist in china without any interference from the state.
> It's questionable how much Marxism actually existed from the beginning. I don't think that Marx envisioned famines starving the poor in his "worker's paradise."
That's like saying "It's questionable how democractic USA is/was given they had slavery."
And to nitpick, they starved the rich as well ;-) (which is a bit more marxist)
Oh come off it.