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Recruitment drive for key posts at Chinese propaganda and United Front Work departments

President Xi Jinping is pressing the Chinese Communist Party to improve its capacity for dealing with the country's most sensitive issues, including Tibet, Taiwan, patriotism among students studying abroad and military-civil fusion. [...]

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