MISREADINGS AND MISATTRIBUTIONS

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has concluded with a much anticipated resolution on the Party’s history, the third such resolution since the Party’s founding, amid expectation that a new assessment would appear this year. The session came at a time when China signaled it had entered a “new era” and celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Party’s founding in tandem with achieving a xiaokang (moderately prosperous) society and after eliminating extreme poverty, while transitioning to a new development model, advancing the green revolution, recovering from the pandemic, and further bolstering sovereignty and national defense.

Chinese media reports for the most part have focused on the 10 principles or lessons