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China Closes Beijing Newspaper in Media Crackdown; Officials Ban Reporting on...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...The crackdown ends a period of...things" in China, a cutting...required under a vagrancy law that was struck...State Council, China's cabinet...Sun's death led to the government...police broad detention powers...the Bank of China in Hong Kong...

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