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open secret
Noun
For the better part of a decade, Beijing’s approach to digital copyright was an open secret: grow at all costs.
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Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
This was an open secret, reported at the time and arising even in Moyers’s documentary.
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