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Chinese village protests test regional leader’s liberal stance

From afar, the huge banners draped across the village square of Wukan on Saturday seemed to herald a town fête. When a man stood up on a scooter to straighten a 20ft banner, however, its message suggested the inhabitants were under siege: “If all the farmland is sold, we will be slaves, losing our village.” [...]

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