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Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six police officers, a local shopkeeper and domestic press said on Wednesday. The violence in the eastern city of Chizhou was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist Party fears could spin out of control, become a channel for anger over a growing gap between rich and poor and threaten its monopoly on power. Full Story