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Frankfurt Book Fair Welcomes China, Dissident Voices

After a month of controversy over its choice of China as Guest of Honor, this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair has finally opened, as Vice President Xi Jinping meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. AFP reports on the fair’s efforts to honor freedom of expression despite earlier attempts by China to censor dissident voices: Gottfried Honnefelder, president of the German publish