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News. China's Communist Party turns 100 this week, plus Wall Street enlists individual investors

to help price initial stock offerings. Stay tuned for this week's edition of the Viewsroom.

Welcome to the Viewsroom. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary

wing of Reuters News, coming to you from Europe. Century ago this week, the Chinese Communist Party was founded

in Shanghai's French concession. Now, the institution which brought the world's such revolutionaries

as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping has never been so popular at home or so resented abroad.

Its leaders are experts at the nuances of control and long on ambition.

Under current President Xi Jinping, the CCP has strode boldly on the world stage.

It has founded multilateral lending institutions, pushed the Yuan into the IMF's currency basket,

and poured money into overseas infrastructure under the Belt and Road Initiative.

Back home, it's eliminated absolute poverty

by its own measures, and it promises to be carbon neutral by 2060. But as our Hong Kong columnist

Pete Sweeney tells Peter Thao Larson this week, the party is dangerously running short on new

ideas. After that, I speak to Lauren Silva Loughlin in New York. She wrote a piece this week

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