Well, I guess we should "greet" Communist China a happy hundred years, right? The party was founded in 1921 and now it's 2021. Perhaps its most notable leaders were Mao Zedong (a military genius) and the great economic communist Deng Xiaoping. Deng prepared his communism with Chinese characteristics that modernized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into what it is today. A look at the history of the CCP will show us why it's only something that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) can only dream of becoming.
Isn't it interesting some of the faces of communism were baldy men? There was Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong - all before the FAILED communist baldy man Jose Maria Sison came into power. The ambitions of the CCP were realized when they took over China under the leadership of Mao. The CCP had its struggle during the Japanese occupation. However, they would later succeed where the Hukbalahap failed - to take over their home country. Reading on the history of Mao would tell you the guy is a military genius. Mao managed to use the strategic genius of Sun Tzu to his advantage. In fact, Mao even wrote his own version of the Art of War which he managed to overcome the odds using the lessons in Sun's original manual. Eventually, his patience paid off when the CCP finally took over China after the civil war. Chiang Kaishek was forced to move away to Taiwan to create the Republic of China. Mao took over the bigger China though he ended up screwing up big time while promising his own version of "Daang Matuwid". Mao's Great Leap Forward proved to be a disaster. China under Mao did fall down because of the poor economic policies.
Eventually, in 1976, a newer, greater force was about to emerge namely Deng himself. Mao left the country in shambles yet was enshrined as a hero. Unlike the CPP, Deng took a modern approach to economics realizing that Mao's great leap forward was a disaster. Instead, it was time to create a newer approach to communism - a communist market economy. Deng went to the United States of America (USA) and announced that China was open for business. Deng focused on economic liberalization which transformed his socialist state into something that would make Venezuela and North Korea die of envy. Deng's new approach to communism caused the once-poorer China to now defeat the Philippines. Deng's approach created job opportunities and improvement of livelihood in his Chinese communist state. Vietnam was also impressed and took a similar approach to Deng's communism. Not to mention, Deng did meet with the late Lee Kuan Yew even if the latter was a democrat while the former was a communist.
In short, CCP did two things CPP can only dream of doing - taking over the country AND making it a powerful economy. Mao managed to create military strategies that allowed the CCP to take over China. Deng created the economic policies during his rule that allowed China to recover from the wasted years of Mao's regime. The CPP neither did both. Instead, Sison fled to the Netherlands while the others are still hiding in the mountains. Until now, all the CPP knows (through its legal fronts) is to make noise but they couldn't even take over the Philippines. Not to mention, CPP is still promoting obsolete economic ideals that would make Deng laugh at them if he were still alive. I guess that explains why the CPP loves communism while they still hate China. It's because they will NEVER come close to becoming as great the CCP!
Glory to the People's Republic of China!
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