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Artist sends caps to Google for collaborating with 'China's censorship'

Badiucao said the caps were a response to the search giant's potential re-entry into China

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Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao sent a package of red baseball caps with the words “Make Wall Great Again” to Google headquarters in China, to protest the company's tentative plans to introduce a censored search engine there.

Badiucao — a Chinese-born artist and activist who now lives abroad — told HKFP that he sent about a dozen red caps to random Google employees. He also left another dozen on sculptures around Google’s United States headquarters and sent a package of 50 caps to Google’s visitor shop.

Badiucao said the caps were a response to the search giant’s potential re-entry into China:

“I want [Google]

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