Editors’ Picks: China's Communist Party throws its own birthday party

Plus: Donald Rumsfeld's fraught legacy [Foreign Policy Logo]( [Foreign Policy Flashpoints]( July 01, 2021 | [View in browser]( SPONSORED BY [NOTRE DAME'S KEOUGH SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS]( 1 [Nationalist to the core.]( a century, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been a nationalist party, with a historical line that connects it today with the patriotic ferment of the late Qing decline, Rush Doshi [writes](. 2 [All about Xi.]( CCP’s birthday isn’t much of a group affair. For the first time in decades, ordinary Chinese are being shown that the country’s future all boils down to the same thing: President Xi Jinping, Melinda Liu [writes](. 3 [Sun Yat-sen’s road map.]( of the striking accomplishments of the CCP is that it has fulfilled not Karl Marx’s dreams but those of Sun Yat-sen, a leader of the Revolution of 1911 who was no communist, Peter Zarrow [writes](. 4 [Religiophobia.]( and other faiths remain among the challengers the CCP fears most. The repression of Christians, whatever their denomination, is at its highest point since the Cultural Revolution, FP’s Azeem Ibrahim [writes](. 5 [Bolton on Rumsfeld.]( U.S. government has had few bureaucratic streetfighters tougher than Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary who allowed the country to escape the logic of “mutual assured destruction,” John Bolton [writes](. SPONSORED [
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