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One of the most widely reported comments during Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping ’s speech last Thursday to mark its 100th anniversary was his pledge that China would not be bullied. Arguing that it had never oppressed or subjugated the people of any other country, and never would, Xi stated that China would never allow any foreign force to do likewise. “Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people,” Xi said, according to the official English translation of the speech...
