China, 2021: In its Centenary Year, the Chinese Communist Party Is Eager to Redesign the Future of Mankind
Abstract
The year 2021 marks the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), founded by a handful of revolutionaries in 1921 with the support of the Soviet Comintern. The party's leadership wants to make the centenary a moment of triumph, the year when the country it controls achieves "moderate prosperity" (小康) and starts preparing for its second centenary, when the People's Republic of China (PRC), founded in 1949, becomes a "modern socialist country" and, it is presumed, the leading power in the world.