“It really is difficult to understate how much of this is a part of the national psyche, the psyche of the Communist Party that in the previous 100 years [before World War II], China was repressed invaded and humiliated by foreign forces,” Al Jazeera’s correspondent Katrina Yu said from Beijing.
“I think Xi Jinping making a point there that that will never happen again,” Yu said.
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