Beijing Review

What China Bashers Fail to See

On the sidelines of a meeting between President Xi Jinping and his Argentinian counterpart Alberto Fernandez in Beijing earlier this year, Argentina’s Ambassador to China Sabino Vaca Narvaja told Xi in Chinese that without the Communist Party of China (CPC), there would be no new China.

“Thank you for your support,” Xi, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, replied with a smile. A short video capturing this brief conversation went viral online. Narvaja’s comments resonate at home and abroad as a growing number of people have come to recognize the CPC’s role in spearheading China’s progress.

The Party is scheduled to convene its 20th National Congress in the second half of 2022, the 101st year after its founding and

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