An unusual kind of training school hidden away in Tanzania, Africa. But the standard classroom curriculum doesn’t apply here. Instead, it’s where the Chinese Communist Party is teaching African leaders about its brand of authoritarian rule and it’s presented as an alternative to democracy.
Chinese and African officials paint the facility as helping economic and social development on the continent through training the next generation of leaders.
But underneath that lesson plan is a strong focus on politics.
According to Western media that visited the school, students are taught how a country’s ruling party can solidify its power. From there, based on China’s communist party model, it should go on to wield more power than the state itself or its courts. That strategy is shared by a staff of Chinese teachers from Beijing.
The school opened its doors last year. Beijing’s Central Party School provided the $40 million needed to build it. Worth noting, the CCP school trains Beijing’s top leaders.
The school falls in line with Chinese efforts to export communist ideology, weaken the West, and change the status quo on the international stage.