So, the official English name for the governing party in China is the Communist Party of China, or CPC for short. But basically every Western media calls it “CCP”, or “Chinese Communist Party”, which doesn’t exist. Wikipedia’s page about the CPC will auto-redirect from “Communist Party of China” if you enter that in, to “Chinese Communist Party”, its title and URL is “Chinese Communist Party”, and then, in the first sentence, literally says that the official English name is Communist Party of China, and THEN proceeds to use CCP for the rest of the goddamn article anyway.
And yes it matters from a language standpoint. While it isn’t the case here, you sometimes do see “X Party of Y” and “Y X Party” both being separate organizations, and they could have extremely different ideologies despite being similarly named. Also, it’s basic grammer rules you learn in first grade: proper nouns can’t just be rearranged all willy-nilly!
So I have this conspiracy theory: CCP sounds worse subconsciously due to its proximity to “CP”, you know, that really disgusting type of sexual imagery. And of course sinophobes want to portray China in the worst way possible.
The thing the prompted me to think this: I have seen “jokes” on R*ddit comparing the acronyms of “CCP” and “CP”. Which get thousands of upvotes despite using child sexual abuse as a punchline.
Am I saying everyone does this, obviously not. But it could explain why mainstream media keep pushing that wrong acronym.
The effectiveness of this trick isn’t conjecture either. There have been plenty of psychology studies that have shown that if the name of one benign thing has even a tangential resemblance to a word for a unrelated bad thing, it dramatically reduces a person’s opinion of that thing vs. if it had a neutral name. I think the most interesting for this one is the study that showed that people whose initials are things like P.I.G., D.I.E., or A.S.S., have lower self esteem than people whose initials are neutral or look like nice words. Same with if someone’s name has letter combos like “hell” or “ass” inside of the spelling.
I KNOW I sound crazy here. BUT: From the regime that gave us MK Ultra, Project Stargate, and the GAY BOMB, is it REALLY that hard to picture them playing around with associative naming in popular media?
There’s another not conspiracy thing I should mention: If you can’t even get the name of the organization you’re vilifying right, then why should I trust you on the factual accuracy of anything else you say about them? If you don’t even care to look up a simple name, then your “research” deserves to be called into serious question. If I went to the hospital and the cardiologist assigned to me keeps spelling the word heart wrong, I’m probably not going to trust them to correctly insert a wire into that organ without killing me.
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I think racism is definitely a big reason, Chinese Communist Party emphasises Chinese ethnicity more than Communist Party of China, which instead emphasises the country as a whole. Western governments want their people to flinch just from hearing the word “Chinese”.
I thought they call it CCP bc it’s like CCCP, which was the Soviets
Yh, westerners are dumb enough not to know the CCP and SSSR are not the same thing.
nah, I doubt libs know the Russian crylic version of USSR
*Cyrillic
Thanks!
But CPC also contains CP…
Lmao this is also true
You’re overthinking it. It’s petty childish nonsense. Because China prefers to translate it one way, they have to say it a different way, assuming that it will “trigger” China. China couldn’t care less.
I mean tbh it also depends on the language. In portuguese here we call it Partido Comunista Chinês. Not due to fucking brainwashing, it’s simply easier than Partido Comunista da China.
We have our own Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) and Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB). Guess what? The more revolutionary one is PCB, and no one considers them more insidious or eeevil than PCdoB.
This is specific to english, if even.
I think the difference here is that in official English documents by the CPC, it’s always translated as CPC, not CCP
Not sure if China has any documents written in Portuguese haha
They’re our biggest client and we sell a lot of stuff, so yes there are documents translated to portuguese.
Do you know if any of those CPC documents are available online? I’m curious to see how it gets translated in Portugese
I tried doing a search but couldn’t find anything
So, the official English name for the governing party in China is the Chinese Communist Party, or CPC for short.
? Communist Party of China.
Shiiiit! And in a rant about it too! Sorry about that!
This is why you don’t rant about stuff when sleep deprived. I wrote this at 1 AM lol.
No worries, just figured I’d let you know! It seemed like an accident.
Americans are delusional and like to invent their own reality, they also don’t like it when others challenge their views.
Its what they did with Kiev, they do random shit like this to “resist”
Perhaps I’m misremembering, but didn’t the official translation of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Wade-Giles, eww), the one by Foreign Languages Press, use CPC and CCP interchangeably?
Ive always thought that there was an element of grouping to it too.
CCP= Chinese Communist Party = the chinese variety of (the monolithic) communist parties of the world ( the enemy )
CPC= Communist Party of China = the communist variety of the many political parties in China
but also it is worth noting that it seems the acronyms are used quite interchangeably in chinese media as they’re only translations anyway
