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.