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    February 26, 2012

Chinese Flock to Obama Website

   VOA News
   A woman walks past a Beijing newsstand where a newspaper front page
   shows a photo of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and U.S. President
   Barack Obama, February 16, 2012.
   Photo: AP
   A woman walks past a Beijing newsstand where a newspaper front page
   shows a photo of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and U.S. President
   Barack Obama, February 16, 2012.

   Hundreds of Chinese have flooded U.S. President Barack Obama's
   Google-plus page with messages, after China seemingly unblocked the
   social networking service.
   Google-plus has not been available in China since it was launched last
   year, apparently blocked by the communist nation's strict censorship
   system.
   But in the past few days, access has been available, either because
   China lifted its blocks or because of a bug in the censorship system.
   The comments to Obama center on freedom of expression and human rights,
   as well as everyday topics such as how to get U.S. green cards to work
   legally in the U.S.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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