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VIDEO Being fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life...unless you are the grandson of China's Mao Zedong. In that case people will treat you like a god...while laughing behind your back. Such is the fate of Mao's grandson, Mao Xinyu. Despite being almost illiterate he was made a major general in the People's Liberation Army. However, he does serve the very useful purpose of being the national laughingstock of China. And the way things are going for the people of China now, they sure do need a good laugh. They just need to be sure...

Mao Zedong's grandson possibly killed in North Korean bus crash By Ko Dong-hwan Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong's only grandson Mao Xinyu was possibly killed in a bus crash in North Korea in April that killed over 30 Chinese, according to a report from French radio. Xinyu, the son of Mao Zedong's second son Anqing who died fighting in the Korean War, was possibly one of 32 Chinese tourists who died when a bus fell from a bridge in North Hwanghae Province, Radio France Internationale's Chinese version reported on April 30, citing a Chinese source. The report said Xinyu, a...