NEW DELHI—As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its 100 year anniversary on July 1, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke of the “rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” and the “rise of the east.” These agendas that the Chinese are likely to relentlessly pursue will have a direct impact on India, the country next door with whom the PLA has been engaged in a fierce confrontation since last year, said an Indian analyst.
“All the struggle, sacrifice, and creation through which the Party has united and led the Chinese people over the past hundred years has been tied together by one ultimate theme—bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” boasted Xi in a speech that repeated “rejuvenation” at least 24 times.
Namrata Hasija, a Research Fellow with the New Delhi based Centre for China Analysis and Strategy told The Epoch Times over the phone that India shouldn’t forget that every time Xi gives a speech, particularly since the 19th Party Congress in 2017, he mentions the “Chinese dream which includes the rejuvenation of the great Chinese nation.”
She said this agenda has direct implications for India because it involves the recovery of so-called lost territory some of which today is a part of the Indian nation.
Xi said in his Party centenary speech: “The victory of the new democratic revolution put an end to China’s history as a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society, to the state of total disunity that existed in old China, and to all the unequal treaties imposed on our country by foreign powers and all the privileges that imperialist powers enjoyed in China. It created the fundamental social conditions for realizing national rejuvenation.”
Hasija said the Chinese leadership and the party cadres have been repeating their rhetoric about “unequal treaties” again and again, and they are not going to give this up.
“I’m repeating myself that an important component of the China dream is the rejuvenation of the great Chinese nation, which means the recovery of lost territories in the unequal treaties, which include Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, South China Sea, East China Sea, the Diaoyu Islands, and Taiwan,” said Hasija.
