BEIJING: China marked the 83rd birthday of the Communist Party yesterday with pledges for cautious political reform, but clung to its suspicion of Western-style democracy.
The Communist Party, founded in Shanghai in 1921, has monopolised Chinese politics since the 1949 revolution but experimented with political changes in recent years in its search for checks and balances to curb corruption and waste.
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