On July 1 of this year, China celebrated the centennial anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with a decadent display that overshadowed the violence and tensions from within the nation.
Founded in 1921, the CCP was inspired by the Marxist-Leninist Russian Revolution years prior. Winning a civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang Party in 1949, the party took control of China and established the deceptively-named People’s Republic of China (PRC). Led by the infamous Mao Zedong, the nation remains a Leninist state.
