China Seeks ‘Closer Cooperation’ With Political Parties From Around the World Political parties from scores of countries are expected to take part in a mostly-virtual summit on Tuesday arranged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an event the party described as the highest-level and largest meeting of global political parties it has ever hosted.
President Xi Jinping is scheduled to give a keynote address at the event in Beijing, the International Department of the CCP’s Central Committee said, linking it to the party’s recent centenary celebrations.
“This meeting is an important multilateral diplomatic event organized by the Communist Party of China on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding,” it said. It would also be the first time that Xi holds “an online meeting with global party leaders.”
The propaganda summit comes at a time of widespread international concern about the actions and policies of China’s ruling party, accused among other things of mass-scale human rights abuses against minority Muslims in Xinjiang, the stifling of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong, directing military threats at Taiwan, and gravely mishandling the coronavirus outbreak that emerged in Wuhan in late 2019......
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