China

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** FILE ** A customer prepares to pay in a poultry market in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Hu Jintao is president of China, which has a one-child policy to control population growth. (Associated Press)

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A ceremony is held Friday before a Chinese naval fleet set sail from Sanya city, in China's southernmost island province of Hainan. The warships, carrying special forces, helicopters and armed with guided missiles, were dispatched to Somalia for anti-piracy duty. (Associated Press)

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Noshir Gowadia, convicted of selling military secrets to China, is shown in an undated passport photo provided by the Gowadia family.

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** FILE ** Wild macaques huddled against the cold in southwest China's Guizhou province as record-breaking winter storms pound eastern, central and southern provinces, stranding holiday travelers and burying dwellings in Nanjing (above) in the east under heavy snow. (Associated Press)