No. I did not defend it. It's nevertheless necessary to acknowledge some of the regime's accomplishments. Frankly, China has to be compared to China, and not to France or Canada.
In China, for example, during the period that followed Mao Zedong, the early years of the revolution were terrible from the humanitarian standpoint. However, after Deng Xiaoping took over, there was the period that ended with the arrival of Xi Jinping.