Tanshan village is about as far away from Baghdad and Washington as it is possible to get, but a looming war in Iraq is never far from the residents' minds.
Living deep in the parched and impoverished hills of northern China's Ningxia region, the villagers usually worry about more immediate problems, such as whether their meagre harvest of wheat and beans will last out the year.
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