Chinese propaganda paints the U.S. as a big, bad foreign power out to hold the East Asian country down. This kind of rhetoric is as old as China’s Communist Party, which celebrates its 100th birthday this month.
NPR China affairs correspondent John Ruwitch has the story.
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