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Inside a Chinese Communist Party School

For Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan reports from the Central Party School in Beijing where she listens in on surprisingly freewheeling discussion: China’s ruling Communist Party’s 80 million members attend special schools to learn party ideology at facilities that serve as a training ground for the next generation of Chinese leaders. And defying stereotypes, it appears that one of the freest p