First they censored it. Now, they’re saying they don’t want to play the game. Chinese state councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing did not want to “play the Game of T…
While the minister wasn’t explicitly referring to the HBO series, the Chinese have had a love-hate relationship with the fabled saga.
The notoriously cautious Chinese censors don’t like explicit content or bloody battles, pretty much the mainstays ofepisodes. HBO’s Chinese distribution partner, Tencent, had to censor versions of the episodes that they streamed online. In one particularly egregious example, six minutes of the Season 8 premiere were sliced.The New York Times
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