Hayek and Friedman etal tied political freedom to political freedom- it's the west's neo-liberal religion that you can't have one without the other. China completely discredits this belief. China isn't doing central planning though the government does have a strong hand on the direction of various industries if those industries advance China economically, militarily and politically on the world stage. China's capitalism is in the service of advancing China as a whole, not simply making 1% of the population wealthy.