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China Shows Off United Nations Peacekeeping School
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_EMBRACING_PEACEKEEPING?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME ^
| 5/05/2004
| CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Posted on 5/3/2004, 6:24:56 PM by truth4
Edited on 7/12/2004, 10:41:59 PM by Jim Robinson.
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LANGFANG, China (AP) -- The English lesson is titled "Disturbance," and the students are equally unusual - 38 police officers training to become U.N. peacekeepers and join China's effort to expand its diplomatic role on the world stage.
In a classroom at a police academy south of Beijing, the students prepare to fight crime in trouble areas abroad by reading a mock burglary investigation.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; peacekeepers; unitednations
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posted on
5/3/2004, 6:24:56 PM
by
truth4
To: truth4
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posted on
5/3/2004, 6:25:48 PM
by
truth4
To: truth4
"What's your information about why the door was open?"
"Come to the station and we'll take your testimony."
"Do you have 17¢ to pay for the bullet to the back of your head?"
"Are your kidneys healthy?"
"How's your cornea?"
"Would you prefer a lao gai with a view of icefields or barren wasteland?"
"Ah, I see a Christian church. Have you any matches?"
"Please, all buddhists remove themselves from the temple. The hookers are here and need a place to conduct business."
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posted on
5/3/2004, 8:12:33 PM
by
sergeantdave
(Gen. Custer wore an Arrowsmith shirt to his last property owner convention.)
To: sergeantdave
LOL!
To: truth4
they are getting growing attention as Beijing prepares to host the 2008 Olympics. That would be good enough reason. This might work out well if they can avoid UN corruption.
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posted on
5/4/2004, 12:10:58 AM
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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