Otherwise known as the STINK EYE!
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"Something many of my expat friends in China are always talking about. They say they find it ridiculous that China is viewed as this incredibly oppressive place where the government is spying on you all the time and concerned with your littlest actions. They oftentimes like to tell me that China actually has more freedoms than the United States or England"
Keep that in mind as you read the daily axe-grinder that passes for a newspaper in AmeriKa.
"Reevaluating China’s promise; Google’s threat may force Mass. companies to review their plans" by D.C. Denison, Globe Staff | January 14, 2010
Like the Internet search giant Google Inc., some of the best-known companies in Massachusetts have staked their most promising hopes for future growth on one of the most dynamic economies in the world: China. But Google’s threat to possibly close its China operation may challenge those companies - including data storage giant EMC Corp. in Hopkinton, manufacturer Evergreen Solar in Marlborough, and even Dunkin’ Brands, the coffee retailer based in Canton - to reexamine any accommodations they may have made to do business under the watchful eye of China’s government.
As opposed to the watchful eye of AmeriKa?
Related: EMC Moving Out of Massachusetts
Google cut 'em down to size?
Google’s frustration with doing business in China, which it detailed in an extensive statement on its corporate blog Tuesday night, included references not only to censorship, but also to cyber assaults on the e-mail accounts of human rights activists.
Then leave. They don't really need you.
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Why is Google complaining to China?
But if other companies are encouraged to reevaluate the value of their China operations, as Google says it will, that would mean a reversal of strategies that have been mostly focused on growth. EMC, for example, said in 2007 it would be investing $1 billion in China over the next five years, and opening a second research and development center in Beijing. In 2008, it started a research collaboration with elite Chinese universities.
Why no expansion in AmeriKa?
Yesterday, in response to the Google statement, the storage firm issued a terse release on its Chinese operations. “At this time, we’ve seen no evidence suggesting that EMC has experienced attacks similar to those described by Google,’’ the statement said. “We continue to protect our operations and intellectual property in a consistent fashion around the world, and are diligent with regular and rigorous security reviews.’’
The Google announcement should be a wake-up call to US companies expanding in China, said Alan Tonelson, a research fellow at the United States Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, a manufacturing trade group in Washington, D.C. “The Google statement should cause any company that’s doing business in China to ask itself if its investment is really working out, or if it’s a victim of hype about the Chinese market,’’ Tonelson said. “These companies should also be asking themselves if they feel that their intellectual property is safe in China, and if their products are being used to track dissidents and human rights activists.’’
Of course, if you track dissidents in the U.S. it's okay.
And this is about MUCH MORE than Google, isn't it?
Yesterday a spokesman for Dunkin’ Brands said the company’s international team was in Indonesia, where it was the middle of the night, and were unavailable to comment on Google’s actions. In August, Evergreen Solar participated in a ceremonial groundbreaking in Wuhan, China, celebrating a factory it was building in partnership with a Chinese company. Evergreen has since said it would shift a portion of the manufacturing it now does in Massachusetts to the new plant. Yesterday, Evergreen did not respond to a request for a comment about its continued investment in China.
It's the low labor costs, folks.
Other Boston-area companies with operations in China include networking company 3Com Corp., recently purchased by computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co.; Internet infrastructure company Akamai Technologies Inc., which has a Beijing office; insurer Liberty Mutual Group Inc.; and the Kraft Group, the owners of football’s New England Patriots, whose holdings include International Forest Products Inc., a big exporter of paper products to China.
Now think about that.
The FOOTBALL TEAM is involved in the waylaying of trees fro products to China but YOU must pay a CARBON TAX, American
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That explains a lot.
Karsten Weide, who follows Google and other global companies as the program director for digital media and entertainment at IDC, a market intelligence firm based in Framingham, said he did not believe the Google statement will cause such companies to radically alter their China strategies. “I don’t think it will make much of a ripple,’’ he said. “The Chinese market is just too good an opportunity. Most companies cannot afford to ignore the Chinese market.’’
Did you just hear a cash register?
“When a commercial enterprise says they are doing something for moral reasons, it makes me suspicious,’’ Weide said.
Me, too!
Weide said that as recently as December, Microsoft said it was increasing its investment in China, with a particular focus on Bing, its search engine.
Yasheng Huang, a professor of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, heard the news about Google’s threat while traveling in China. Reached by e-mail, he said his concern was not for Google, or other US companies with investments in China, but for China itself....
Why?
And if is not supposed to that big a deal, WTF?
"News of Google’s threat blocked by China’s censors" by New York Times | January 14, 2010
BEIJING - Google’s declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world yesterday. But in China itself, the news was heavily censored....
I have a Zionist prism for mine.
In a statement, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed “serious concerns’’ about the infiltration of Google. “We look to the Chinese government for an explanation,’’ Clinton said....
But the Israeli's spying on us? Aaaah!
--more--""China cites law in Google clash; Says firms must help ensure safety" by Joe McDonald, Associated Press | January 15, 2010
BEIJING - In China’s first official response to Google’s threat to leave the country, the government said yesterday that foreign Internet companies are welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over Web censorship.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, without mentioning Google by name, said Beijing prohibits e-mail hacking, another issue cited by the company. She was responding to questions about Google at a regular ministry briefing. “China’s Internet is open,’’ Jiang said. “China welcomes international Internet enterprises to conduct business in China according to law.’’
Google Inc. said Tuesday that it would stop censoring search results in China and that it might shut down its China-based Google.cn site, citing attempts to break into accounts on its Gmail service used by human rights activists. Jiang gave no indication whether the government had talked with Google. The state Xinhua News Agency said earlier that officials were seeking more information about its announcement. The main Communist Party newspaper warned companies to obey government controls as Web users visited Google’s Beijing offices for a second day to leave flowers and notes expressing support for the company.
Yeah, you don't have to obey government regulations in Ameri.... never mind.
Peoples Daily, citing a Cabinet official’s comments in November, said companies must help the government keep the Internet safe and fight online pornography and cyberattacks.
Now that is a worthwhile endeavor!
Web companies must abide by “propaganda discipline,’’ the official, Wang Chen, was quoted as saying. “Companies have to concretely increase the ability of Internet media to guide public opinion in order to uphold Internet safety.’’ Also yesterday, a law professor and human rights lawyer, Teng Biao, wrote on his blog that someone broke into his Gmail account and forwarded e-mail to another account. Teng said he did not know whether he was one of two Chinese activists mentioned by Google as hacking targets. “Google leaving China makes people sad, but accepting censorship to stay in China and abandoning its ‘Don’t Be Evil’ principles is more than just sad,’’ Teng wrote.
They have newspapers in China?
Another Beijing human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, says his Gmail account was hacked in November and important materials taken, the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group announced. Jiang has represented Tibetan activists and advised people with AIDS who are seeking government help. Outside the Google offices, some visitors poured small glasses of liquor, a Chinese funeral ritual. Google’s main US site has a Chinese-language section but Beijing’s filters make that slow and difficult to access from China.
They are talking about doing that in the US with the end of net neutrality.
What hypocrites we are!
Beijing promotes Internet use for business and education but operates extensive filters to block access to material deemed subversive or pornographic, including sites run by dissidents and human rights groups. Its market of 338 million Internet users is the world’s most populous.
The Global Times, published by Peoples Daily and known for a fiercely nationalistic tone, took an unusually conciliatory stance yesterday, warning that Google’s departure would be a “lose-lose situation’’ for China.
Then why would China do it? Cui bono? Not China!
“Google is taking extreme measures but it is reminding us that we should pay attention to the issue of the free flow of information,’’ the newspaper said.
Somehow, those two things seem contradictory to an American.
It said China’s national influence and competitiveness depend on access to information and added, “We have to advance with the times.’’
Yeah, the TRUTH always helps in DECISION-MAKING!
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NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc., owner of the number two search engine in the United States, was targeted by a Chinese attack similar to the one that affected Google, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Google said this week that at least 20 other companies were targeted in a series of highly sophisticated attacks in December. Yahoo was one of those companies, said the person, who declined to be identified because the information is not public. Google said this week that it is notifying the other companies, which spanned such industries as finance, technology, media, and chemicals. The Chinese attacks also included hackers going after human-rights activists via their Gmail accounts, Google said. The popularity of Yahoo’s e-mail service could have made it a target, said Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of the Search Engine Land website. “People are looking for places to communicate, and communicate without the Chinese authorities restricting them.’’
Yahoo, which said it stands with Google in condemning the attacks, does not disclose attacks on its computer systems. Yahoo sold its Chinese business in 2005, though it has a stake in Alibaba Group, the Chinese online retail site. “Yahoo does not generally disclose that type of information, but we take security very seriously, and we take appropriate action in the event of any kind of breach,’’ Yahoo said.
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So what is this all leading to, readers?
In China, Google meets the inevitable
It’s still strange that a company with the informal motto “Don’t be evil’’ would have ever set up shop in China in the first place....
Or Israel, for that matter.
The Chinese will still be left, as usual, in search of an unfiltered view of the world.
Then don't bother reading an AmeriKan newspaper.
