China’s Xi Misquotes Revolutionary Leader

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By NTD Newsroom
October 11, 2021China in Focus
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Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s speech on Saturday invoked a revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen but it’s the wrong meaning.

Sun was the forerunner of China’s democratic revolution. Over a century ago, he led an uprising to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and ended thousands of years of monarchy in China.

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