They did use to block google regularly before Google came in China... And Baidu is quite a bit more popular with Chinese people than Google so I'm not sure if t

They did use to block google regularly before Google came in China... And Baidu is quite a bit more popular with Chinese people than Google so I'm not sure if that will be the problem... What might be bad for China though is all the investment Google made on research and the PR disaster (and the chinese government is very concerned with face).