Chinese allowed to "touch" Dragunov (news pic)

[Berg]

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051025/capt.xhg10710250718.china_police_xhg107.jpg
Chinese police officer giving members of the public a touch of a sniper rifle on the streets of Beijing, China,. Chinese authorities are keen to promote relationship with the public to counterbalance general perception of corruption and inefficiency of the police force. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051025/capt.xhg10610250652.china_police_xhg106.jpg?x=380&y=253&sig=BEd2Sj_Iu4xD0eIh.KRGaw

[Gonefission]

The two links don't work.


Can you post the pics here is you saved them?

[Berg]

Weird, yahoo pulled them. I can't even get them in their archives. They don't usually do that.

The only one left related to the event was this one;
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20051026/i/r3993245333.jpg?x=380&y=283&sig=henKyqSDQAL4ckecgk24nQ--

[Phil1114]

Berg,

Yahoo came to a licensing agreement with the Peoples Republic of China, which allowed the PRC to monitor and edit any and all information available to their people. That is why you will seldom see anything on the net involving Yahoo that is negative towards the PRC.

Phil

[Mactrekr]

Anyone else getting that ol' Hinky feeling about our PRC "Friends"?
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