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In reply to the discussion: Teenager kills 8 , wounds 5 in China knife attack [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)33. The point you were making was based on China's official crime statistics being accurate
I've read enough about them (and anecdotally from my travels there) to know that the official stats can usually be assumed to be lies.
So any argument based on them being accurate is off to a bad start.
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The point you were making was based on China's official crime statistics being accurate
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
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