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China: People’s Conferences

If you’ve been following the glorious progress being made in this year’s rounds of the parliamentary-ish National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, where members of China’s... ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Sat, Mar 10 2007

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