> Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else? Google is getting approval everywhere with relevant laws that affect them. Otherwise, well, that'

> Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else? Google is getting approval everywhere with relevant laws that affect them. Otherwise, well, that'd be illegal. > Can someone explain why Google must have sought Chinese approval? Both companies are American, so what's the problem? If just the nationality of incorporation mattered with respect to merger law, then companies would just start devising even more complicated workarounds than are already employed for non-repatriated income.