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China Kicks Off National Day Festivities

As the 60th birthday party celebrations get underway in Beijing, the New York Times reports that all that is missing is a guiding ideology for the nation: China’s ruling Communist Party is throwing itself a huge and meticulously choreographed anniversary party on Thursday, a celebration whose overarching theme echoes the words Mao spoke after forcing the Nationalists to surrender Beijing in 1949.