China's 60 Years of Communist Rule
After 60 years of Communist rule, China celebrated the anniversary today with military demonstrations, parades, and fireworks. Hu Jintao, Communist Party leader and President, spoke in Tiannamen Square from the same spot Mao Zedong had declared the creation of a new China: "[We] have triumphed over all sorts of difficulties and setbacks and risks to gain the great achievements evident to the world. Today, a socialist China geared towards modernisation, the world and the future towers majestically in the eas