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A lot has changed since we last reported on the recent syringe stabbings in Xinjiang. First, remember how we said that only a handful of people had been stabbed? Well, it turns out that the actual number is around 470, according to a recent post from AGI News in Beijing. What's worse, CCTV reported that the needles are now presumed to have been filled with AIDS contaminated blood. As a result, government officials have claimed the attacks were carried out by members of the Uyghur minority, which triggered a spat of protests by Han Chinese for more forceful persecution of Uyghur separatists related to the original protests in July.

Deng Xiaoping's widow, Zhuo Lin, passed away from illness yesterday at 12:30pm in Beijing. According ot the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Zhuo's medical treatment had failed. She was 93. Zhuo became a member of the Communist Party in 1938 and was married to Deng a year later in front of a cave dwelling in Yan'an. During the Cultural Revolution, she helped him survive a series of political purges, and at one point was sent to live in exile in Jiangxi Province. When she died, the CPC saluted her as a "time honored loyal Communist fighter." Source: Xinhua