Nearly 70,000 people celebrated the 100th birthday of the ruling Communist Party at Tiananmen Square in capital Beijing on Thursday as Chinese authorities strengthened their surveillance on pro-democracy activists.The high-security event reached a crescendo with shouts and applause from the unmasked participants, after President Xi Jinping, head of the party, said in his one-hour keynote speech, "This is the great glory of the Chinese nation."At the end of the speech, Xi, dressed in a grey Mao suit, raised his right fist and said, "Long live the great, glorious and correct Communist Party o…READ FULL ARTICLE
