China blocks search words "Cairo", "Egypt", "Jasmine", "Democracy"

This follows discussion on Chinese social media websites where bloggers have drawn parallels between the uprisings in Cairo and similar incidents in China, including the 2009 protests in the north-western province of Xinjiang.

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