Creating slogans using numbers is one of the distinctive features of the Communist Party of China’s discourse strategy. In more recent years, one would have probably encountered phrases like the “two safeguards” or the “four self-confidences.” Why is it that the Party uses such a communications strategy? Also, what are the ideas that lie behind such slogans? In this episode, Pranay Kotasthane and Manoj Kewalramani decode the math of CCP slogans.

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