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I am not now nor at any time have ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Yet I served as dean of a large faculty of political science at a Chinese university that trains students and provincial cadres to serve the country as Communist Party officials. It’s typically a post reserved for members of the CCP, given the political sensitivity of the work.
Shandong University is the premier university in a province of more than one hundred million people that is famed for being the hom
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