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\nFrom The Standard (link):<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nChina’s parliament is widely seen as a rubber-stamp for the Communist Party, but that doesn’t stop delegates and advisers from raising bold and sometimes wacky proposals.<\/p>\n

This year has seen calls for edible toothpicks, pleas to professional footballers to avoid prostitutes and proposed laws to legalize same-sex marriages and euthanasia.The 3,000 NPC appointees are often ridiculed as “toothless tigers,” while the accompanying 2,000-odd CPPCC delegates are regarded as even more impotent and the non-elected “legislators” tend to repeat what top leaders say.But that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own ideas on how to improve the country, however bizarre.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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