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It's CPC - Communist Party of China. Calling it CCP, Chinese Communist Party, is also a dog whistle, as it dates back to the various "Chi-Com" slurs of the John
by rsj_hn 4y ago
It's CPC - Communist Party of China. Calling it CCP, Chinese Communist Party, is also a dog whistle, as it dates back to the various "Chi-Com" slurs of the John Birch era, in which they were focused on Chinese communists (emphasis communism) as opposed to, say, Russian communists.
You may not like the CPC, but you should at least be able to correctly identify it. Getting the name wrong is a signal of being misinformed, no different than someone talking about UAS - or United American States, instead of USA - reveals they don't even know basic things about the USA, but are repeating what they heard online from others who are equally uninformed about the USA.
- rippercushions 4y agoIt's 中国共产党, which is quite literally "China Common-Production [Communist] Party". The party's preferred translation is indeed CPC, but CCP is arguably more correct.
- DiogenesKynikos 4y agoChinese grammar is so different from English grammar that it's entirely unclear whether CCP or CPC is the more correct translation (from a grammatical perspective). Just to begin with, Chinese does not modify words through endings, conjugations, etc., so it doesn't even have an equivalent to "Chinese" (an adjectival form of "China"). 中国共产党 is just literally, "China-Communism-Party." There are several ways to render that in English, all equally valid, from a grammatical point of view.