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by solaris152000 550 days ago
It's name in English is the Communist Part of China, CPC not CCP.
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Apparently, the official CPC is pro-stablishment, unsurprisingly, while the common CCP is anti-stablisment

https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/03/30/ccp-or-cpc-a-china-...

This shit winds me up no end.

It feels almost like propaganda in itself, to evoke CCCP connotations.

It would be like if I just decided to start unilaterally referring to a "Language to Markup Hyper-Text" (LMHT) instead of its correct name.

tbf though, even the BBC can't get it right : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg68vyz9lgo

Exactly. I've never heard someone use 'CPC' before. It's quite obvious why the alternative isn't liked.