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China's selfless saint a has-been?
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[Toronto Star] - "I shall be a screw that never rusts and I will glitter wherever I am placed," historians quote Lei as saying in the 1960s. As it turns out, fate – and Mao
Google News: Book review: The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
[Straight.com] - Thus, Mao Zedong and even Robert Mugabe get a more evenhanded ride than usual from this astonishingly generous outside observer.
Military forgets lessons of the past
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[Winnipeg Free Press] - That is why the much-ballyhooed "battle" for Marjah and Nad Ali, two small towns in Afghanistan's Helmand province, is irrelevant to the outcome of the war.
FACTBOX - Facts about China's military forces
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[Reuters India] - The People's Liberation Army (PLA) was born out of the Red Army, a 5 million-strong peasant army that swept Communist leader Mao Zedong to power in
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