In this podcast [44 min], the editor of Insightview discusses the past and the future of the Communist Party with China expert Joergen Delman, professor, PhD. This year, China's Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary. China's Communist Party celebrates its centenary birthday. Therefore, its leadership has been eager to control the narrative of the party history to show unbroken and planned progress. 
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‌“The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable”, according to a joke in the former Soviet Union. This also applies to China. Beijing has created a whitewashed version, which means that Chinese people saying something different are punished. ‌The official version disguises the failures of the Great Leap Forward, which led to tens of millions starving to death in the 1950s and ‘60s. It calls the Tiananmen Square protests a “political storm” incited by “anti-communist, anti-socialist foreign enemy forces” backed by a “tiny minority.”
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‌In this podcast, we also discuss the consequences of President Xi Jinping taking more and more power, and why Didi and other tech companies are now targeted by Beijing. [Read also today's NikkeiAsia article, Alibaba-backed LinkDoc suspends US IPO as Didi fallout spreads.] Furthermore, Joergen Delman explains, in-depth, how the Communist Party works. Moreover, Joergen explains how the parallel decision structure between the Communist Party and the government works.
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‌‌Music: Melodyloops, 'Technology Park' – by  MediaM
‌Music: Melodyloops, 'Chinese Ways' - by Michael Adels‌