• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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        212 days ago

        I know one is the proper spelling of how the party calls itself and the other is an intentional misspelling western trolls use.

        • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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          -212 days ago

          But you do have an idea what it is. I use it because that’s the only thing I’ve seen non tankie people refer to it as, and I definitely don’t want to follow the tankie’s lead. Is it a translation thing that someone swapped or something? Or did they change it at some point?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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            412 days ago

            It never changed. The official and correct name of the party is has always been The Communist Party of China: CPC. I hae no idea why people in western mainstream insist on misspelling it. It’s like if I just arbitrarily decided to spell USA as SUA and then insisted that it’s the way it should be spelled despite the official spelling being very clear.

            • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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              12 days ago

              Looks like maybe CCP is more of the transliteration of the first letters of the Chinese words, but CPC is more of a translation, which the party prefers? But I’m getting a ton of conflicting state sources muddying the water. Some indications that CCP was seen negatively, so CPC was emphasized as a rebrand. Or that Chinese is a slur, so using China instead is more sensitive.

              Anyway, CPC is what the tankies insist on, so I’ll keep using CCP.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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                412 days ago

                Again, it’s very clear what the party calls itself, and the fact that you choose to intentionally use a different way to call it even after being corrected is idiotic in the extreme, so is running around calling people you disagree with tankies. Keep on making a clown of yourself.