SHENYANG, China (AP) The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad.

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In April, Beijing said it would require foreign financial news and data providers like Reuters, Bloomberg and AP-Dow Jones to course their reports through the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

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"Intercepts by Chinese fighters over the past couple months have become more aggressive to the point that we felt they were endangering the safety of the Chinese and American aircraft, " he said in the AP report.

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