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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10141
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade

China's internet censorship is matter for WTO, Kroes says

Strasbourg, 18/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - Following her official five-day visit to China, European Digital Society Commissioner Neelie Kroes set the cat among the pigeons in Shanghai on Tuesday 18 May when she opined that Chinese censorship of the internet was a trade barrier that should be discussed at the WTO. The “Big Firewall”, that is to say, the close supervision exercised by Chinese authorities over the internet, was a trade issue, “in that it represents a real barrier to...

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