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US adds China's Internet controls to list of trade barriers

US says that over the last year, the "outright blocking of websites appears to have worsened"

Published Fri, Apr 8, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Hong Kong

CHINA'S notorious online controls have long been criticised as censorship by human rights groups, businesses, Chinese Internet users and others.

Now, they have earned a new label from the American government: trade barrier.

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