Fifteen Years of Rumours Have Surrounded the Changes in Beidaihe.
Since the establishment of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1949, the Beidaihe resort in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, has been heavily guarded every summer between July and August. Senior CPC elders and current high-ranking leaders gather there under the pretense of vacation meetings, and each
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