Xi says no more ‘bullying’ as China marks party centenary
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Chinese president says only the Communist party could ‘save’ China and that people and party cannot be separated.
China’s President Xi Jinping told crowds gathered in Beijing that the era of China being “bullied” was over and that anyone who tried to separate the party and the Chinese people was doomed to failure as celebrations to mark 100 years of the Communist Party got under way in the Chinese capital. Speaking from the balcony above the portrait of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square, Xi spoke of the party’s successes since its founding in 1921 – how it had freed China from an “exploitative” feudal system and created a “socialist market economy brimming with vitality”. “Only socialism could save China,” said Xi, who was dressed in a dark grey Mao-style suit. “And only socialism with Chinese characteristics could develop China.”
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