Party piece: China’s Communists at 100

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Party piece: China’s Communists at 100
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:22:53
• Published: 2021-07-01 12:38

Pomp and rhetoric marked the centenary of what are arguably the world’s most successful authoritarians. We sit in on the celebrations, tinged with paranoia; we look back to 1921 and how the party came to be and came to power; and we listen to the party-approved hip-hop that represents a new propaganda push. 

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