A day after staying silent commemorating Monday’s 50th anniversary of the start of Chinese Cultural Revolution, China’s official media reaffirmed the party’s longstanding judgment the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophic mistake, The Associated Press reported. Using an opinion piece posted to its website, the official party mouthpiece People’s Daily unequivocally praised a 1981 party resolution condemning the bloody political movement launched by Mao Zedong to enforce a radical egalitarianism, the report said. “Our party has long taken a solemn attitude toward bravely admitting, correctly analyzing and firmly correcting the mistakes of our leadership figures.” – People’s Daily The party...
