Promotion of Cooperation between the Communist Party of China and the Tanzania’s Chama Cha Mapinduzi in the New Era

Abstract

Abstract Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has put forward new thoughts, new ideas and new measures to guide the Party’s international work. The Communist Party of China (CPC) takes the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative (“一带一路”倡议) as the starting point and the construction of ‘Community with Shared Future for Mankind’ (“人类命运共同体”) as the strategic goal to carry out the party’s diplomacy. At the same time, the proposal for a ‘China-Africa Community with a Shared Future’ (“中非命运共同体”) also puts forward new requirements for Sino-African political party exchanges. As a political party with the longest ruling time in Africa, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has a long history of friendly exchanges with the CPC. The long-standing inter-party relations between CPC and CCM is the political guarantee of Sino-Tanzanian friendship as well as an important part of Sino-Africa political party cooperation. Even before the CCM was founded, the CPC has started exchanges with TANU, CCM’s predecessor, after that, relations between CCM and CPC have gone through different stages, with some new contents and features appearing in each stage. From Mao Zedong’s Three Worlds Theory to Deng Xiaoping’s judgment on the theme of ‘Peace and Development’ and then to Xi Jinping’s ‘Community with Shared Future for Mankind’. In 2017, with Xi Jinping’s announcement at the 19th National Congress of the CPC that Socialism with Chinese Characteristics has entered a new era, the CPC’s foreign exchanges has also entered a new era, so has the inter-party exchanges between the CPC and CCM. In view of the fact that the initiator and advocate of world party diplomacy is the CPC, this article will take the perspective of the CPC and the Chinese official narrative to analyze the new tasks and opportunities facing the cooperation between CPC and CCM in the new era, especially in the complicated international context of a world undergoing changes unseen in a century.