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> It could help, for one, expose more Chinese to Western culture and vice versa.

"Western culture" is a large part of what that censorship would be aimed at suppressing.

I wouldn't say a large part but definitely some. Having lived in China for ~5 years, most of the censorship seemed to be targeted at internal scandals and politics.

Why is "Western culture" in scare quotes there?

Probably because he's just quoting the person above him

It's a vicious cycle

Those aren't scare quotes, they're quotation quotes.

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