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The Sleeping Giant wakes...Not

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News producer  BEIJING – It’s rare that those of us at the NBC News Beijing bureau ever envy Chinese politicians. But around this time of the year, some of us wouldn’t mind trading places with members of China’s legi... ...full story at NBC World Blog

from NBC World Blog on Fri, Mar 06 2009

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