Amb. Shyam Saran, Dr. Lance Gore (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore), Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Prof. Hemant Adlakha (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr. Bhim Subba (University of Hyderabad)

The clandestine grouping of a dozen young Chinese intellectuals this month a century ago in Shanghai has magnified into an event of world historical significance.
Scholars have debated the century-long journey of CPC. Marxist debates have critically looked at the CPC journey through the ideological lens, & highlighted several crucial & pertinent issues:
a) Importance of holding on to Marxism-Leninism and never to lose the connect between the Party and the masses;
b) ideological discourse amongst Marxian schools of thought has contrasted the revolutionary founding principles with the “missing” Chinese people’s struggle against neoliberal finance;
c) last but not least, so-called “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
At the same time, the CPC is being analyzed in terms of the growing personality cult and larger-than-life authoritarian style of Xi Jinping, the “great leader” on one hand, and the People's Republic of China’s growing ambition to become "imperial" power, on the other.