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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

People sit around a table watching an instructor demonstrate a tea-tasking ceremony.

Chinese Instruction

A Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center instructor shows Chinese language students a tea-tasking ceremony as a way to immerse them in the culture.

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