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great revival of the chinese nation, of which they see taiwan as a part of it, and there is so far a difficulty in trying to find a so called common political foundation on which to proceed, political relations between the two sides. when i lived in beijing, around the time of the olympics in 2008, the communist party would routinely present itself as the victim of a century or so of humiliation by the west. that was a narrative i heard almost every day. is that narrative still being talked about? certainly it s still part of the narrative, and i think it s about establishing a baseline, right? if the baseline is that china suffered a century of humiliation, then obviously what happened afterwards, the chinese communist party s rise, would look so much better. that is why they are talked by china s dream now. china not only stood up, got rich but also got stronger under the xijinping era, and that s the narrative they re trying to push.