Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices faces effective ban in China

Publisher says Chinese firms have turned down translation rights and major importer refuses to distribute English copies

Hillary Clinton's bestselling memoir Hard Choices has been effectively banned in China less than a month after its release, the publisher Simon & Schuster has said.

The book, in which Clinton retraces her four-year tenure as US secretary of state, contains a number of scenes which paint China's leadership as rigid and oppressive. "It's not a secret that the centre of the anti-democratic movement in Asia is China," she writes.

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