More than 20 years earlier, formally on 1 August 1927, the CPC created what it calls the armed wing of the Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Preceding both events, on 23 July 1923, the CPC created itself.

Inverting the order of creation for the United States of America places the CPC system and the US system in diametrical opposition.

We the people created the United States of American first, then we the people created what became the U.S. military, later political parties formed and died, and others came into being.

As the order of formation matters, so do foundational intentions.  US founders sought to protect people from oppressive imperial powers.  Chairman Mao Zedong set the PRC’s purpose to preserve victory over Kuomintang forces for the CPC, not for the people living in China.  The PRC constitution, written by the CPC and enforced by the PLA, protects the CPC from the people it rules.

Mao hid his intentions behind rhetoric of a “People’s Democratic Dictatorship.”  The CPC continues with similar camouflage today asserting it provides “whole process democracy.”

Look, at least, at one odd result: the United States trusts people, including Chinese people, more than the PRC trusts the people living in the People’s Republic of China.

On this birthday of the PRC, Americans should clang bells and let its message of freedom ring as deep into and as broadly throughout the PRC as we can.