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CCP at 100: How Chinese communism went to the forefront of global politics | DW News

The CCP was founded in 1921, and this week, top party brass are touting their achievements with big public relations campaigns. But as the party bolsters its image, is there weakness behind the facade?

The CCP is the second-largest political party in the world — it is half the size of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party had 91.9 million members in 2019, and has ruled China since seizing power after a civil war in 1949.

"The Chinese Communist Party's international influence, appeal and attraction have continually increased, placing it at the forefront of world politics," Guo Yezhou, deputy head of the party's external liaison department, told reporters at a press event this week.

The CCP has steered China through a century of wars, famine and social upheaval. In the last 20 years, millions of impoverished, starving Chinese who lived in the countryside have been lifted from extreme poverty. This social mobilization has helped create the second-largest economy in the world.

However, the party's concentration of power and expansive foreign policy under President Xi Jinping has raised concerns that China is turning more towards authoritarianism.

Criticism of the party and its policies is quickly snuffed out. Chinese military expansion in the South China Sea has drawn international condemnation, as has a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong and the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in the western Xinjiang region.

Xi says no more ‘bullying’ as China marks party centenary

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.

President Xi Jinping is using the occasion to tighten his grip on the nation.

In 2018, he removed the two-term limit on his presidency, effectively allowing him to remain in power for life.

And during the centenary celebrations, the same narrative is being repeated again and again: China can only be great if it unites behind one party and one leader.

Al Jazeera's As Katrina Yu reports from Beijing, China.

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This is a prototype of the flying car "Air Car" developed by Klein Vision of Slovakia.
Take off from western Nitra Airport.
The "Air Car" heads for Bratislava, the capital, 75 kilometers away.
And 35 minutes later, I landed without any problems.
According to Klein Vision, this is the 142nd successful landing and the first successful flight between the airports of the two cities.
When you arrive, you will be transformed.
Fold the main wing ...
Store the tail.
The transformation time is about 3 minutes.
Leave the airport dashingly with the looks of a supercar with a rear wing.
This prototype can fly in the sky at a cruising speed of 190 km, but the next model is expected to reach a cruising range of 1,000 km at a cruising speed of 300 km.