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I think it is accurate to call modem China fascist, it is in many ways. That doesn’t make it right wing though. You absolutely can have left wing fascism, in fact most fascism I believe is left leaning. Actually, some of the movers and shakers of the far left are more like fascists than traditional communists. A lot of big businesses - Hollywood, banking, internet/tech companies, mainstream media, universities - these are far left businesses that collude with the government to further their far left ideology as well as to improve their own bottom lines. A lot of left wing censorship actually happens along these lines, in a way which is very much fascist in behavior with ideologically left motivations.
I'd actually argue that following this definition, Mussolini's Italy was a left-wing regime, since the explicit aim of Totalitarianism is inherently left-wing, and a right-wing regime cannot be totalitarian, or else it would not be right-wing. Totalitarianism implies a belief in the ability of humans to be right, instead of God, on a breathtaking scale, and that's completely antithetical to the right-wing understanding of the cosmos.