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Google is not very big in China anyway, the Chinese gov't doesn't stand to lose much.

• enomar 17y ago
  A company like Google saying that it isn't safe to do business in China has to at least annoy them to some degree.
  • onoj 17y ago
    What is really interesting to me (i live in china) is that now that they have made this public it is impossible for them to continue doing business in china. Due to the social rules here if they wanted to save the situation in any way it should have been done privately. Given that they are clever people they know that announcing this will kill the china business. It is in essence a "slap", "we're out of here".
    • realitygrill 17y ago
      Ah yes, face. How is the news spreading in China?
      • rms 17y ago
        Try http://twitter.com/search?q=%23googleCN http://twitter.com/search?q=%23googleCN and translate.google.com
• garply 17y ago
  Why did this get downvoted? I didn't say anything incendiary and I don't think my statement was factually incorrect. The truth is, the Chinese government doesn't stand to lose much at all by blocking Google. Politics trumps business here - and even if it didn't, all blocking Google does is help promote local Chinese competitors, which is something the gov't likes to do anyway.