Communist party’s policies should be studied
THE Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrates its centenary in July.
At its founding in 1921, it openly deferred to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soviet assistance helped the CCP against the Nationalist Party of China (the Kuomintang), culminating in the 1949 victory of the CCP, which was accompanied by the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. The Kuomintang fled to the island of Taiwan and retained a
