The CCP Can’t Hide Its Illegitimacy and Humiliation of Its Dependence on the Soviet Union

Paramilitary police officers marching past the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate, as it undergoes renovations in Beijing on May 18, 2019. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

It must be embarrassing for a former KGB agent like Vladimir Putin to be supplicant to Xi Jinping. As an old intelligence pro, he would know the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the essential role the Comintern or Communist International played in directing and controlling the CCP from its earliest days until its victory in the Chinese Civil War.