True, but if many companies do this on a wide range of sectors then wouldn't it be hard, if not impossible, to distinguish "the West cowing down" and "private o

True, but if many companies do this on a wide range of sectors then wouldn't it be hard, if not impossible, to distinguish "the West cowing down" and "private orgnisations being more pragmatic"? I'd say it's a dangrous move, whose consequences must be vigilently watched. The difference between this and Google is that whether or not Google operates in China, the world outside of China is not affected. People everywhere else still get the same search results. But if Bloomberg decides that it's better to report less negatively in English to its audiences in the whole world in order to make a profit from the Chinese market, it's not the Chinese audience, but the outside world that's gonna be hurt.