Beijing vented its spleen by allowing mobs to ransack Japanese government offices and businesses in China this spring.

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Companies suspect China of organising mini-raids to ransack Western know-how: but it could just have easily been Western criminals, computer-hackers showing off or disillusioned former employees.

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They didn't destroy material or ransack the house.

CNN: For Baha'i educators, a lesson in power from Iran

What follows when a currency loses all practical value, when an economy stops functioning and jobs evaporate, when food and medicine run scarce and mobs ransack stores, when a government's every action increases distrust and confusion?

CNN: Indonesia's Agony

They ransack liberal newspapers.

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