Party piece: Chinas Communists at 100

Published: July 1, 2021, 10:38 a.m.

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Pomp and rhetoric marked the centenary of what are arguably the world\\u2019s most successful authoritarians. We sit in on the celebrations, tinged with paranoia; we look back to 1921 and how the party came to be and came to power; and we listen to the party-approved hip-hop that represents a new propaganda push. 

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