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Sinjang - A Police State

In his final sojourn as our asia economics editor, simon robenovitch recently visited sinjan i. In the south of the region, which is home to most of the weagers, you have check points everywhere. Communist party officials used to insist that social harm in shin jang could only be achieved by developing the region's economy. But then they began to argue that stability was the route to economic development. A million weagers have been thrown into caps for re education, the rest placed under high tex surveillance.

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