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Taiwan warned by US experts of CCP’s expanding infiltration • Apr. 24, 2025, 6:12 AM ET (Taipei Times)
Divided loyalties? 62 Taiwanese military members found with Chinese residency permits • Apr. 17, 2025, 1:20 AM ET (AP)
Xi says China will stand with Southeast Asian countries in face of economic shocks • Apr. 17, 2025, 12:36 AM ET (AP)
Scholar spared prison in US case alleging China spies on dissidents abroad • Apr. 14, 2025, 7:03 PM ET (AP)
China's Xi Jinping says there are no winners in a tariff war as he visits Southeast Asia • Apr. 14, 2025, 2:43 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As CPC • Chung-kuo Kung-ch’an Tang • Zhongguo Gongchan Dang • Communist Party of China • CCP
Date 1921 - present
Areas Of Involvement communism
Related People Mao Zedong • Lin Biao • Zhu De • Chen Boda • Li Dazhao • Ye Jianying • Chen Yi • Peng Dehuai • Li Lisan • Liu Shaoqi • Zhou Enlai • Chen Duxiu • Deng Xiaoping • Xi Jinping • Jiang Qing

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Flag of the Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong (center) leading the Chinese communists on the Long March with Zhou Enlai (left) and Zhu De (right), Jiangxi, China, 1935
Mao Zedong, 1967
Deng Xiaoping, 1978
Xi Jinping, 2017
China: Cultural Revolution
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