Word: xing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough-talking camp commandant, Wang Xing, said that the 243 prisoners (ten of whom were women) initially were obsessed by fears that they would be executed. But after a month of "studying" Chinese-supplied materials, the prisoners now realized that China had "exercised leniency and decency towards prisoners of war." The commandant said that 30% of the prisoners now agree that Viet Nam had been the "aggressor" in the war, while a further 60% were inclined toward this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed...