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China Approves Law Governing Armed Police Force

A new law governing the People’s Armed Police has been approved, the New York Times reports:The law is the first to explicitly govern the force, whose members serve as border guards, security details for government officials, firefighters and disaster-relief workers, but are best known outside China for their role in suppressing political and social unrest. The troops will have authority in