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Velvet Glove Trumps Iron Fist in South China Land Riot

At Reuters, John Pomfret examines an unusually light-handed turn to the official response to riots in Wukan, Guangdong against the backdrop of provincial Party Secretary Wang Yang’s “Happy Guangdong” development model.It was an unusual scene for a Chinese riot — there was not a single policeman in sight …. “Come up here,” said one child running through th