"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"
Yeah, I'm not going to find that in my agenda-pushing, war-promoting "newspaper."
"China-Google fight heats up; Media say firm politicizes dispute" by Gillian Wong, Associated Press | March 22, 2010
BEIJING — State media lashed out at Google over the weekend with editorials accusing the search-engine giant of helping forces abroad attack China and its laws, while calling efforts to pressure the country over its Web censorship ridiculous.
I don't need anymore convincing.
The game is up.
The critical editorials and op-ed columns came amid signs Google Inc. might be moving toward closing its China site after saying in January that it would no longer cooperate with Beijing’s Web censorship.
Who cares? China has their own search engines.
A commentary carried by the official Xinhua News Agency accused Google of harboring a political agenda and said the company should understand it has to comply with the laws of countries where it does business....
Related: The Jewish Hand Behind Internet
Oh, I guess you had better go here then.
Yeah, no political agenda, though.
Beijing encourages Web use for education and business but tries to block access to material deemed subversive or pornographic, including websites abroad run by human rights and pro-democracy activists.
Yeah, how come the Chinese can cut off that sick s*** but we can't?
See: Porn On the Web
Oh, just ONE MORE FALSE FLAG OPERATION, huh?
Google is demanding that the government tear down the so-called Great Firewall, designed to block politically sensitive information and images. Chinese news reports say Google is on the verge of making good on a threat to take down Google.cn because Beijing forces it to censor search results.
Google says it is in talks with Beijing after announcing Jan. 12 that its e-mail service had been hacked from inside China and that it no longer wants to comply with Beijing’s Web controls....
Related: Canadians Bust Mossad Computer Hacking Cell in China
Coincidence(?): China firms clamor to go kosher
Oh, better go here then.
Who is CENSORING THINGS, AmeriKan MSM?
The China Daily said in an editorial Saturday:
“Chinese netizens did not expect the Google issue to snowball into a political minefield and become a tool in the hands of vested interests abroad to attack China under the pretext of Internet freedom,’’ the editorial said.
And USrael knows ALL ABOUT FALSE-FLAGGING PRETEXTS, don't they?
Exhibit A: 9/11
Exhibit B: Iraq
Even DISCUSSED a FALSE FLAG to justify an invasion, huh?
Yes, the AmeriKan government and MSM have forfeited the right to be believed.
The newspaper carried an opinion piece that said it was “ridiculous and arrogant’’ for a US company to try to change Chinese laws and suggested that Google was acting in Washington’s interests.
Well, we know who is running Washington.
And can you imagine U.S. reaction if China was telling them how to run the web?
“Google’s relations with the US government cannot be deeper,’’ the article said. “How can people believe that the company’s search results are without any bias when it lacks independence as well as business ethics?’’
:-)
"Google ends censoring of Internet in China; Government says promises broken" by Miguel Helft and David Barboza, New York Times | March 23, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Google yesterday closed its Internet search service there and began directing users in that country to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong.
While the decision to route Chinese users to Hong Kong is an attempt by Google to skirt censorship requirements without running afoul of Chinese laws, it appears to have angered officials in China, setting the stage for a possible escalation of the conflict, which may include blocking the Hong Kong search service in mainland China.
The state-controlled Xinhua news agency quoted an unnamed official with the State Council Information Office describing Google’s move as “totally wrong.’’
“Google has violated its written promise it made when entering the Chinese market by stopping filtering its searching service and blaming China in insinuation for alleged hacker attacks,’’ the official said.
Google’s retreat from China, for now, is only partial. In a blog post, Google said it would retain much of its existing operations in China, including its research and development team and its local sales force. While the China search engine, google.cn, has stopped working, Google will continue to operate online maps and music services in China.
They are not really leaving, and this is exactly what the Chines claim it is.
Google’s move represents a rejection of Beijing’s censorship but also a risky ploy in which Google will essentially turn its back on the world’s largest Internet market, with nearly 400 million Web users.
Google’s decision to scale back operations in China ends a nearly four-year bet that Google’s search engine in China, even if censored, would help bring more information to Chinese citizens and loosen the government’s controls on the Web. Instead, specialists say, Chinese authorities have tightened their grip on the Internet recently. In January, Google said it would no longer cooperate with government censors after hackers based in China had stolen some of the company’s source code and even broken into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights advocates.
Which could be anyone.
Who wants to make China look bad?
While other multinational companies are not expected to follow suit, some Western executives say Google’s decision is a symbol of a worsening business climate in China for foreign corporations and perhaps an indication that the government is favoring home-grown companies.
I'll tell you, I WISH the United States would do that instead of watching the corporations move to China!
And the corporations are GOING NOWHERE because of the SLAVE LABOR and WAGES of Chinese factory workers -- unless they can find an even cheaper place to do business.
Despite its size and reputation for innovation, Google trails its main Chinese rival, Baidu.com, which was modeled on Google, with 33 percent market share to Baidu’s 63 percent.
Oh, CHINA HAS its OWN SEARCH ENGINES!
What do they need Google for then?
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Related: Despite some negatives, there are plenty of reasons to invest in China’s stocks
Told you.
"Google-China showdown is turning point; Businesses begin to push back" by John Pomfret, Washington Post | March 24, 2010
But keep investing.
BEIJING — The showdown between Google and the government of world’s most populous country marks a turning point in what was one of the great late 20th century alliances: the bond between Western capital and Beijing’s authoritarian system.
Chinese officials insist the Google case is an isolated one and won’t affect China’s opening to the West or its market-oriented reforms. But Western businessmen say the Internet giant’s audacious move to confront China over censorship underscores a sea change in how Western businesses deal with China’s government. Most pointedly, Western businesses have begun to push back....
And THUS the STAGE for WAR is set!
Though China has not taken any draconian action against Google, it has started censoring results for sensitive searches on Google’s Hong Kong-based website, where its users on the mainland have been redirected. (Hong Kong users could see uncensored results.)
There were also signs China wants to punish Google. Yesterday, a Hong Kong Internet company, TOM Online, said it had stopped using Google’s search service. TOM is owned by the family of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man and a supporter of the Communist government.
Analysts predict that two mainland Chinese state-owned mobile phone companies, China Mobile, with 500 million users, and China Unicom, China’s second-biggest, will rethink deals with Google.
Analysts say China’s willingness to stand up to Western companies is a consequence of its meteoric economic rise. The government does not need Westerners’ investments as much as it once did, and it is increasingly bald-faced about its desire to acquire their technology.
Do you see the tone the agenda-pushers are using?
“The Google affair is both catalyst and evidence of change,’’ said Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Dragonomics, a Beijing economics firm. “We are at a turning point. It had been very, very unusual for foreign business to say anything too negative about China, because the opportunities here were too large.’’
How many times have we heard that expression the last seven years, 'eh, Americans?
Indeed, for decades, Western businesses have been Beijing’s closest friends.
That is why they MOVED all the FACTORIES there!
When Congress railed against China over human rights issues and threatened to revoke China’s most favored nation trading status in the 1990s, business groups flocked to Washington to state China’s case. The last major Western company to confront the Chinese government was Levi Strauss & Co., which withdrew from the country because of “pervasive violation of human rights.’’
More recently, Western businesses have been willing to voice concerns about the way they are treated in China. The European Chamber of Commerce has issued a series of reports criticizing China for a deteriorating business environment. One accused China of embracing “economic nationalism.’’
Of course, that is okay for some people.
Even the American Chamber of Commerce in China, long one of the friendliest venues toward the Chinese government, has gotten into the act. On Monday, it said business confidence among 203 members surveyed was at its lowest point in four years.
Joe Studwell, an author, called the tone part of a “new realism’’ toward China. Businesses now understand, he said, that the “unspoken arrangement with China is coming unstuck.’’ China is not opening its markets, as many had assumed it would.--more--"
Also see: Giving China the Googley Eye
AmeriKan MSM's Constant Complaining About China
Around Asia: China on the Prowl
Google's Gripes With Vietnam
