Published in The Print @ China’s ‘Century of humiliation’ never ended. It needs a Mandela or Gandhi now Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping—All of them have contributed to humiliating the Chinese people to keep CCP in power and achieve personal glory. LT GEN P R SHANKAR RETD 16 October, 2022 10:50 am IST The narrative of the revenge on the ‘Century of Humiliation’, when China has suffered at the hands of foreign powers, will be blown-up at the 20th Communist Party Congress. There is a need to understand this aspect of the Communist thinking in its correct perspective. There is another ‘Century of Humiliation’ being heaped upon the Chinese people, which is completely buried under the Communist narrative. The ‘Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)’ is the multifaceted period when the imperial government lost control over large portions of Chinese territory to foreigners. The Opium Wars represent one facet. In the First Opium War (1839-1842) British gunboats went up the Yangtze Riv...