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China will not ease state control over what can be said online and will brook no foreign criticism of its rules, according to a government white paper released on Tuesday after months of wrangling about freedoms for Web users. ... Over the next five years, the government aims to give 45 percent of its 1.3 billion people access to the Internet, up from about 30 percent now, pushing everyone from officials to farmers to get online, the policy document said.

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