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Party-speak refers to speech typical of the political party, in this case the Chinese Communist Party. The sense is of a language full of rigid and ritualistic formulations.

[The Arithmetic of Party-Speak][1]:

  • The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is just around the corner — and that means the machine of political discourse is humming away at high speed.

Here [speak][2] is used as a suffix meaning:

(informal mainly disapproving) used to form nouns to mean the special language used in a particular subject area or business:

  • computer-speak
  • marketing-speak

(Cambridge Dictionary) [1]: https://medium.com/@cmphku/the-arithmetic-of-party-speak-c52debdd41db [2]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/speak

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