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Chinese cop killer becomes folk hero?

I’ve said before that Internet buzz is not always an accurate way to measure the pulse of the Chinese people. With that in mind, I still found this article about Yang Jia, who killed six police officers last month, to be intriguing. However,... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Fri, Aug 29 2008

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