Obama to China: Uncensored society is healthy

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question from a woman during a town hall-style meeting with future Chinese leaders at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai November 16, 2009.      REUTERS/Jason Reed                     (CHINA POLITICS)
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SHANGHAI - President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House — and telling his tightly controlled hosts not to be wary of a little criticism.

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