Yes. They've modernized their country in a single generation and basically did a speed run of what the West took a century to achieve, both the good and the bad. At the same time, they always kept their distance from being totally subverted by the West and used globalism as a tool for their own agenda. China's spy program is possibly the greatest in history, given they have spies and useful idiots in every major corporation, university, and government feeding China everything it needs to be a global superpower.
That's not to say there aren't a lot of problems with China and I wouldn't want to live there since the government does insane shit like their covid lockdown policy although China did recover politically by convincing the West to copy them (there were emails of unknown content exchanged between big lockdown advocates and CCP officials in February 2020). And in many ways China is still 50 years behind the West given their "Rust Belt" in Manchuria, all sorts of poorly built structures, and pollution issues.
Now Western leftists praising China is really stupid since beside Democrats borrowing their bureaucratic anti-freedom approach from the CCP, China is very conservative especially now. BLM/Floyd bullshit would not fly in China--they'd be in a gulag. Hobos are strictly punished and not allowed to shoot fent and tranq all day and set fires and rape. Feminism is not tolerated, and Chinese women are expected to act and dress like women. Homosexuality and transgenderism are not permitted in public and promoting them is punished like when China closed down a big LGBT center and exposed it as a CIA front. Chinese media promotes socially and physically healthy lifestyles and the good of the country and does not tolerate subversion. Ethnic minorities are permitted to keep their culture but not bowed before and worshipped, and immigrants are strictly monitored with tight quotas and conditions and sent packing if they fuck up.
This is what the West should be copying from China, and why China is deserving of at least some praise. Just like our governments did decades ago, the CCP is actually promoting and advancing their country instead of treating them as colonial subjects to abuse, easily replaced economic units to exploit, and subject to freak shows and degeneracy to convince the scum who runs us that their Satanic fetishes are normal. Xi Jinping is not a good guy, but he's far, far superior to any Western leader including Donald Trump who's about to sell us out to billionaires.
In big chinese cities they usually gather homeless people and drive them to country side, especially if there's a big event coming up or something like that. Also their solution to poverty was changing the definitions and amount of wealth thats considered poor.
I dont think there's that many credits you can give for CCP, during their time chinese culture and nature have been raped. Surveillance is also out of hand and they regularily cover up disasters, its partly because of "mandate of heaven" where something like major floods are considered as a sign from the heavens that leadership has no mandate anymore.
You can literally see how China lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty since the 80s by looking at satellite pictures of China then vs now. Chinese sweatshops suck, but they often pay their workers more than they make in their village. China basically traced the US's development from the 1870s-1970s in just a single generation. Let's remember that the industrial US had dark satanic mills where you were paid like shit, would get fired for losing your fingers in the machinery, and it was considered benevolent to let your workers take Sunday off because they were doing 12+ hour shifts every other day. Or that as recently as the 1970s we had shit like the Love Canal, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland catching fire, or the average river in Appalachia having all sorts of nasty mine leakage in the water that made them utterly toxic, made worse by all the dams they built. Every city in the US used to have godawful smog that was so bad that until the 50s it used to cause more lung cancer than cigarettes.
As for China's pollution, they're building a fuckton of huge dams everywhere (green energy), have all the largest solar plants in the world, and are also a major nuclear power investor. They've also reduced air pollution by something like 40% between 2012 and 2019, and we know this isn't just China making shit up because you can see it on satellites and because Chinese people complained the government did shit like seize their heaters for not being up to code. Yeah, they do some real shitty things that leftist ecofags want in the West, but they've gotten a lot done.
To be fair much of the social and political retardation of modern China stems from CCP rule. A lot would immediately improve from the reintroduction of Chinese culture, history and social norms
West Taiwan reannexation when?
The CCP in the past 20-30 years has made big steps to fix this. It's commonly said that Confucius is read far more than Mao these days. Chairman Xi especially is pro-Confucius and anti-Western degeneracy and has done a lot to combat both Western feminism imported by the CIA and China's own indigenous feminism that was created by Mao. There are also a lot of pro-Confucian intellectuals and professors who have some level of support in the CCP.