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 | | The PRC is sometimes under criticism from Western governments and NGOs concerning allegations of lengthy detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as allegations of restrictions on freedoms of speech, the press, assembly, association, religion, and workers' rights, as being violations of their definition of human rights. |
 | | The People's Liberation Army's official budget for 2005 is $30 billion, possibly excluding foreign weapons purchases, military-related research and development and the paramilitary People's Armed Police and other expenses. |
 | | Another factor cited by some people was the unfavorable exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the United States dollar to which it used to be pegged. |
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