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Swimming from Xinjiang to Taiwan

Your daily dose of Taiwan-related Xinjiang news from the Kyodo News Agency: A Chinese man claiming to be a political refugee from China's restive Xinjiang region on Monday swam ashore at an outlying island of Taiwan and sought asylum, according to local... ...full story at Opposite End of China

from Opposite End of China on Mon, Aug 11 2008

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