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Danson Cheong China Correspondent In Beijing, Danson Cheong
Think Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member and someone like PhD student Zhou Yeqiu might not be the first person to come to mind.
The bespectacled 26-year-old student at the University of Science and Technology Beijing is shy and self-deprecating, repeatedly apologising for her lack of public speaking skills.
