I would be surprised considering the money they would lose if Google pulls out of China:
Chinese officials have told companies to back state control of the internet, showing no sign of giving ground on censorship after US internet giant Google threatened to quit the country.
Minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang Chen, said online pornography, fraud and “rumours” were a menace.
He said internet media must help “guide public opinion” in China, which has the world’s biggest number of internet users at 360 million. He did not mention Google.
Mr Wang’s comments suggested little room for compromise in the internet dispute that could stoke tensions between China and the US, already at odds over the yuan currency, trade, climate change and Taiwan.
“If you look at the overall internet industry, it is becoming increasingly repressive, not just for Google but the whole industry,” said Elinor Leung, an industry analyst for CLSA in Hong Kong.
“The reason is the explosive internet user growth, and the Chinese government wants to ensure control.”
Internet companies should help China’s one-party government steer the fast-changing society, Mr Wang said, whose Information Office is the government arm of the China’s propaganda system.
“Our country is at a crucial stage of reform and development, and this is a period of marked social conflicts,” he said.
“Properly guiding internet opinion is a major measure for protecting internet information security.”
Google, the world’s top search engine, threatened to shut its Chinese-language google.cn website and offices in China because of cyber-attacks from China on Chinese dissidents using its Gmail service and on dozens of foreign companies.
Cyber-experts said more than 30 firms were victims of attacks that used tailored emails to deliver malicious software that exploited vulnerabilities in the popular Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader software. [ABC News]
What really gets me is that Google tries to appear surprised this is happening. They had to have known going in about how the Chinese government operates.








7:25 am on January 14th, 2010 1
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29502
2% of its 2010 forecasted revenue would be the it.
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January 15th, 2010 at 4:08 am
2% revenue considering how much Google makes is a huge number plus China has an ever increasing number of Internet users due to its continuing modernization. I will be surprised to see them pull out, but I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.
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10:23 am on January 14th, 2010 2
Kudos to Google. Finally, some business standing up to the authoritarian autocratic government in Beijing. Perhaps Korea will rethink its desire to follow Chinese footsteps in controlling and censoring the internet.
Any business should be wary of doing business in China. If the Chinese steal your trade secrets and your technology, the temporary profits may lead to your long term demise.
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12:43 pm on January 14th, 2010 3
Probably not, sounds more like a (business) ploy to get the Chinese government to give in to Google’s demands than a conscious move out of disgust.
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8:45 am on January 19th, 2010 4
I’ve read that their market share are really not good in china. As Juchechosunmanse it might be more of a business move
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