[chimeracoder]

> The CCP is a new usurper/colonizer/occupier.

Those three words mean three different things and are not interchangeable. The CCP cannot accurately be called a "colonizer", because, regardless of its faults, it's not exogenous to China.

It's a category error.

[josephcsible]

Which word would you recommend as the best fit for what I'm trying to say?

[I-M-S]

Victor.

[josephcsible]

That misses the point of the illegitimacy. Is that the only word you'd use to describe the Taliban after they usurped control of Afghanistan?