Xi no longer meets ‘bullying’ as China makes 100 years | Political News

Shanghai, China – Chinese President Xi Jinping has told a gathering in Beijing that China’s “brutal” era is over and that anyone who tries to separate the party from the Chinese people is doomed, as the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centenary.

Speaking from the balcony above the statue of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square, Xi spoke more than an hour before the party was held in Shanghai in 1921.

In his confident statement, along with leaders of the past and present, he spoke of how the party had liberated China from “oppressive” intelligence, created a “powerful monarchy” and eradicated extreme poverty.

“Only socialism can save China, and only socialism with a Chinese character can make China,” said Xi, who was wearing a black suit.

The China Communist Party defeated the Patriots in the country’s civil war in 1949 and Mao Zedong declared the People’s Republic of China a ploy to eradicate extreme poverty. China is now the second largest economy in the world and Xi is known as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

The festivities came as Beijing traded concerns – as tensions escalated with countries including the United States and Australia – and its targets west of Xinjiang, as well as Hong Kong and Tibet. There are also questions about the COVID-19 epidemic, which erupted in the center of Wuhan city, and continues to cause global unrest.

Party leaders and a daring country, Xi warned that any attempt to separate the party from the people would “fail”.

When China “receives you[d] friendly ideas from around the world “, Xi said the country would not accept” arrogant negotiations “.

The applause and excitement came when Xi said that the Chinese people “no longer allow foreign powers to oppress and oppress us”, and that anyone who tries to do so is “severely beaten by the endurance of the Chinese people”.

“No one should defy the will and power of China against foreign powers,” Xi added.

While Xi was speaking in Beijing, the TV station found several celebrations.

Pages that reach almost every TV station had carefully decorated billboards; in the WeChat Moments dinner, almost a new Facebook meal, people posted messages and photos of gratitude, with words like “happy birthday – our great CCP”; and on Weibo, China’s Twitter-based social networking site, CCP’s 100 headlines made headlines, with the headline # CCPTurns100Today recording over 5 billion views.

‘We can do anything!’

The centenary celebrations in Beijing began with the flight when about 30 warplanes made “100” in the air above the cheering crowds. There were also trumpets and trumpets singing communist songs, as well as 100 gun salutes sounding in ceremonies to celebrate national pride.

Celebrations to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the party are taking place in Beijing and across the country [Roman Pilipey/EPA]

At airports and train stations, by letters, posters and media equipment, China has become a Communist party.

In the northwest state of Gansu in Longnan, the site of the China Communist Party’s military base in the Great March of 1934, party flags were hung on the roof of each house with large hammer and sickle statues erected a few weeks ago July 1.

The town is famous for its ‘red tourist attractions’.

“We are all proud members of the party and we want to come here to pay our respects to the elderly who have changed,” Guan, a Shan’xi party member, told Al Jazeera as he posed for a photo with a group of other party members marching through the town in front of a large hammer and saw.

Longnan is not the only city celebrating the birthday of the ruling party in the country.

The whole country has been urged to observe the day – from the capital Shanghai where the CCP was formed and the party’s first rally – in the small towns of Xinjiang where Beijing is accused of violating the rights of the Uighurs minority.

Despite all the excitement, there have been complaints that preparations for the event have disrupted daily life. A special security search was set up for a trip to Beijing before the festival, roads near Tiananmen were closed for days, and police and the army stood in almost every corner of the city.

Wu, a gaffer singer in Shanghai, said almost all of his gigs were suspended in June and July due to “special time” which required “strong adjustments that could be allowed”.

Well-known political sites, such as the town of Long March, have become a popular “red hot spot” for the party’s 100th anniversary. Here, a group of guests in Red Army uniform shout out letters at Yingshan Long March Spirit Experience Park in Huanggang, central Hubei [Stringer/AFP]

“I don’t care about the festival, but I’m fine with it – but it shouldn’t stop the festivities with a lot of music,” said Wu, who did not want to be named. “I don’t understand how difficult this is.”

For Fu, a photographer living in Anhui province, the ban meant he could not buy a drone, which affected his work. Since June 11, all online platforms have been required to remove the entertainment drones on the shelf to “meet the requirements,” and the process will remain until July 15.

“I’m used to doing unnecessary things and sometimes nonsense,” Fu said, begging me to just be known by a false name. “I’m just hoping I can buy drones soon enough to start my career again.”

For the ruling party, however, this attempt is worthwhile.

For Chinese officials, the real problem is still overseas where Beijing is being monitored and investigated not only in Xinjiang but also in Hong Kong, where he is accused of violating human rights and freedoms that were confirmed when the territory was restored to China in 1997.

On the surface, however, the Communist Party seems to boast of unprecedented loyalty.

“Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China,” the popular Communist Party song goes. A century after the party was formed, it is a feeling that seems to be common among the Chinese people, whether they are party members or not.

Flying planes at the 100th anniversary of Beijing’s Communist Party in Beijing [Wu Hong/EPA]

The results released on Wednesday show that party membership rose by 2.43 million last year, the highest increase since Xi became President in 2013.

“I am proud to be a member of the party, and I am proud to be of Chinese descent,” the Weibo user replied during the ceremony on Tiananmen Square. “Under the guidance of the CCP, we can do anything!”