Chinese Communist Party 100th anniversary: Xi Jinping vows China will never be bullied – as it happened
Tight security in Tiananmen Square as country marks CCP centenary and China’s president warns against oppression by ‘foreign forces’
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Our China affairs correspondent Vincent Ni has written about what today means for Xi and the CCP:
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