[piasa]

But a little checking showed that this story, too, was cribbed: It was a direct translation of a front-page article from Sunday's Washington Post.

Does this mean that the Chinese paper will be receiving a note from the Washington Post's lawyers?

Maybe the next Onion headline will be:

Red China Joins Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic in Defense Against L.A. Times and Washington Post Lawsuit

[goldstategop]

LOL!!! And they say politics makes for strange bedfellows. :-)