Just because she IS pregnant doesn't mean she's planning to have the baby. It could easily still be her or her family's attempt to get some money out of this while they have leverage. Unless she's a deranged Christian or VERY different from the average Chinese woman, there is no way she'd at least consider an abortion in this situation.

I find it a huge red flag that she demands money from you like that. Child support is normally something you pay after the kid is born, and she doesn't have anything to report you to the police about (unless it is rape, but I imagine by now you've already saved as much of your correspondence as you could, which would put you in the clear on that one. If she's really planning to go ahead and have the child without a husband, she's stirring up a giant hornets' nest of trouble with the authorities, and the risk of not being able to find a husband later on.

I think there is a good chance this could be a scam in the sense of either she's not pregnant, or she's going to milk you for everything she can before she gets an abortion.

I know this is an odd question but after hearing about the woman in Kunming who got her eyes stabbed during an abduction last week, I was wondering what kinds of defensive weapons are legal to have in China? I know guns are illegal unless you belong to a minority with hunting traditions, but what about mace, bats, knives, knuckledusters stuff like that? What can you legally have in your home and what can you legally carry around?

KHAAAAAAAAN!!!

Non-stop? I guess there are some but not too many, and that would be quite a grueling trek. I think most buses go to either Dali or Lijiang first and from there you'd jump on the next one. If you haven't been to either I'd recommend going to Dali first, stay a couple of days, then go to Lijiang and stay there for a couple of days and finally take off to Shangrila.