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Is Simplified Chinese really a botched version of Traditional Chinese? – Learning Chinese

chinesehacks.com — Something that is often overlooked in the debate over simplified characters is Variant Characters and their influence on the simplification process...

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Bing censors simplified Chinese characters world-wide, not just in mainland China! – Tech-Web

kristof.blogs.nytimes.com — If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results.

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Return To Complex Characters Proposal, Netizen Reactions – Weird China News

www.chinasmack.com — Chinese netizen reactions to a CPPCC proposal to return to using complex/traditional characters decades after adopting, teaching, and using simplified characters. Who will bear the cost? Why should 1.3 billion people change for 20-30 million?