Can the Chinese Communist Party last another 100 years?
Beijing is awash in red this week as the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centenary on July 1  red flags, red fireworks, red medals, red flowers. There are even "red" propaganda rap songs - in content, anyway. Chinas carefully choreographed celebration is aimed at glorifying the Partys history and cementing loyalty in the nation of 1.4 billion people  delivered in broad platitudes. We have written a splendid chapter in the history of the Chinese nation and entire human race, leader Xi Jinping proclaimed this week from the Great Hall of the People. Outside, scarlet propaganda banners read: Without the Communist Party, there is no new China.  The message is clear: the Party was, is and always will be the vanguard of China and its people.