![]() China Obsesses Over Miami Condo Collapse, Downplays Own Major Disastersġ924.Kim Jong Un Criticizes Officials for Allowing COVID-19 to Threaten Security.China, US Spar Over Claims of Vaccine Hoarding, 'High-Sounding' Slogans.Today, Xi still reaffirms the paramount position of the CPC in the country-it is the only party that can drive China forward. The Soviet Union's influence on Mao would continue well into the PRC's establishment, in the form of sweeping economic campaigns. The party adopted a Marxist-Leninist political structure of hierarchy and centralism that persists to this day. The CPC, which was inspired by Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution of 1917, allied with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) with the goal of spreading its proletarian revolution in China. Revolutionaries like Mao emerged with an opportunity to shape the country's future. After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 ended 2,000 years of empirical rule, the newly founded Republic of China (ROC) government oversaw a period of chaos that failed to institute a constitutional system. Its original grassroots members including Mao, a teacher, had come together two years earlier during the anti-imperialist May Fourth Movement. According to official party narrative, July 1 was later selected as its official foundation day. What is certain is that its inaugural National Congress took place in Shanghai and Jiaxing from July 23 to August 2. The precise date of the CPC's founding is lost to time. Xi wants to emulate Mao, some say, while others warn he wants China to replace the United States.ġ921. Mao, the founding father of "New China," remains undisputedly the leader who has overseen the biggest upheaval in the country historians estimate his revolutionary campaigns are responsible for tens of millions of unnecessary deaths. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is now a technological police state at home and viewed as a formidable nuclear power abroad. The party's humble working-class beginnings, heavily influenced by Russia's socialist uprising in 1917, may be unrecognizable to many today. The Communist Party of China (CPC) marks its 100-year anniversary on July 1 with a dogmatic leader in Xi Jinping at the helm, who China watchers say has molded himself after Mao Zedong-equally as ruthless and just as insecure. ![]()
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