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China Executes Filipino Drug Mules

A. Lin Neumann
Mar 31, 2011
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The execution of three convicted Filipino drug couriers in China Wednesday as Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III stood powerless to stop the event underlines a deep divide between the region's reigning power and one of its chronic underachievers.

Aquino sought to accommodate the Chinese government on a variety of issues in an effort to save the t…

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