Confrontation may be resolved soon
The Chinese government continues to be unimpressed with Google’s threat to hoist anchor and leave the country, at least based on the quotes in this IDG News Service story on our site today:
“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,”
“It is unfair for Google to impose its own value and yardsticks on Internet regulation to China, which has its own time-honored tradition, culture and value,” a commentary by writers at the official Xinhua news agency said Sunday. “One company’s ambition to change China’s Internet rules and legal system will only prove to be ridiculous.”
Prove to be ridiculous? I’m thinking something may have been lost in the translation on that one.
Word from Google on its next move is expected as early as this week, according to a story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal.
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