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Attendees wave Chinese flags during a ceremony at Tiananmen Square to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing
CHINESE President Xi Jinping insisted that the country would not bend to foreign interference today in a defiant speech to mark the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
“Any attempt to divide the party from the Chinese people or to set the people against the party is bound to fail,” he said during the ceremony in the capital Beijing.
Mr Xi, who is also CPC general secretary, said that the Chinese nation is not an aggressor, in a message aimed at those trying to whip up hostilities.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
STEPHEN BELL reports from a delegation that traced the steps of China’s socialist revolution from its first modest meetings to the Red Army’s epic 9,000km battle to create the modern nation that today defies every capitalist assumption
