Professor Rana Mitter writes on the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China
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Rana Mitter has written an article for the Times of India (Mumbai), on the CPCs 90th birthday.
He writes: The party has indeed come a long way since its first, secretive meeting in 1921, when its founder members included a young library assistant named Mao Zedong. It now has close to 80 million members - the largest political party in the world - and presides over the worlds fastest-growing economy. It has done this while defying what seemed an inevitability in the post-Cold War world, that economic liberalisation would inevitably come with democratisation.
The full article is called Not out at ninety (published 11 July) can be read here.
