Chinese chaos
China admitted a serious breakdown of law and order in parts of the country, with warlords, bandits and feuding clans running rampant as peasants tried to get rich quick, Reuter reports from Peking.
The official Legal Daily put the blame on China's bold economic reforms, which have created a new class of wealthy city entrepreneurs but left the countryside poor.
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