Xi Jinping warns China won’t be bullied in speech marking 100-year anniversary of CCP

Chinese Communist party leader warns foreign forces seeking to oppress China are on a collision course' with 1.4 billion people

China will not allow sanctimonious preaching" or bullying from foreign forces, and anyone who tries will find themselves on a collision course with a steel wall forged by 1.4 billion people", its president, Xi Jinping, has said on the centenary of the Chinese Communist party.

In a speech before a crowd of 70,000 in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Xi praised the ruling party for lifting China out of poverty and humiliation, and pledged to expand China's military and influence.