Carefully choreographed celebrations can’t gloss over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) history of atrocities and authoritarianism. Since its founding in 1921, the CCP has subjected millions of Chinese to starvation, censorship, detention, persecution, and brutality while using threats, aggression, harassment, deceit, and subversion against other nations. 104 years of CCP repression hardly sounds like something worthy of balloons and cake.