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CCP is a closer translation of how the party name is written in Chinese. It has never made sense why they decided they would be referred to as CPC in English,
by TeaBrain 2y ago
CCP is a closer translation of how the party name is written in Chinese. It has never made sense why they decided they would be referred to as CPC in English, when the original party name in Chinese reads as CCP.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIt’s definitely because they want to be known as the communist party of China (place distinction) rather than a Chinese (ethnic or nationality distinction) communist party. The former definition is one of land and the other one is bound to people, and not all Chinese live in china, and not all people in china are ethnically Han. This probably meant more during the Stalin years (before the Sino-Soviet split) when they were strongly a branch of the communist party of the Soviet Union. The same ambiguity pops up in their acronym: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Sovie...
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- TeaBrain 2y agoThe Soviet party is translated as it is traditionally spelled in Russian.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoAnd what do you think was the first language translation for the communist party of China? Definitely Russian. I bet we find the same pattern in the other affiliated communist parties.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoChinese doesn't even have adjectives, so there's no difference between CCP and CPC in Chinese. The whole issue is just a shibboleth. The party itself prefers CPC, while CCP is more common in the US (where it's increasingly used as a slur for anything related to China, as in "TikTok is a CCP app").