Google's exit a deliberate plot

Google's exit a deliberate plot

Editor's note: Google’s moves are combined with Washington’s tongue. The US company finally exits when it’s able to achieve neither business survival nor political aims.

Search engine leader has been part of the US' foreign strategy; its departure opens the door for domestic and foreign rivals

After two months of intense spats with the Chinese government, Google said on Monday it would shut down the mainland-based 92b23c22192e45361066f593 search services and redirect the mainland's web users to Hong Kong.

In January, the world's leading search engine threatened to leave after alleged cyber-attacks in the mainland. Google said it would no longer filter its Chinese-language search results, a commitment that it agreed to when the company launched its search operations in China in January 2006.

Google's withdrawal is not a purely commercial act. The incident has from the beginning been implicated in Washington's political games with China.

A few days before Google made its announcement, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lavishly praised US Internet companies for their role in helping the Obama administration realize its foreign policies, at a lunch with chief executives of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Clinton in particular sang of their positive role in instilling US political stances and values into Georgian and Iranian street politics to sway local public opinion.

Given that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have no access to the Chinese Internet market, the White House believes that Google alone cannot play a large role in China as it did in Georgia and Iran.

As expectated, days after the enlightening lunch, Google announced its withdrawal of its search service from the world's largest Internet market on charges that it could not tolerate strict Internet censorship required by the Chinese government. Immediately after its announcement, Clinton made a speech in support of Google's "Internet freedom" campaign.

Google has enjoyed intimate links with the Obama administration. The company was one of the four major sponsors of US President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. It also played an important role in helping Obama's team raise election funds.

After the Obama administration was sworn in, some senior Google managerial staff members were successively recruited to important government posts. Such close connections between the two make it natural for Google to be devoted to serve the Obama administration's foreign strategy. The search engine leader's exit from the Chinese mainland is a deliberate plot. The charge that it is opposed to China's "hacker attacks" and "Internet censorship" not only sounds reasonable, but also caters to the prejudices cultivated in the Western public toward the Chinese government. Google's case is in essence part of the US' Internet intrusive strategy worldwide under the excuse that it advocates a free Internet.

Google's accusations against China are completely groundless. The company has so far failed to submit any convincing evidence of the Chinese government-aided hacker attacks on its search engine. The censorship charges also exposed the engine's ignorance of similar practices prevailing across the world.

Google's services in Germany, France, India and other countries are also under scrutiny. Even in

the US, it is not rare for some government agencies to often intrude into private e-mails under the anti-terror pretext.

Many of the US Federal and State laws and acts have clauses to restrict the flow of information on the Internet. In California, Colorado, Nevada, Louisiana and other states, public libraries, schools and Internet service providers (ISP) are required to put measures in place to block juvenile access to pornographic content. As the world's largest filtering software producer, the US has made the world's majority part of information-blocking software.

Google's Monday announcement was also a grudging commercial move amid its gloomy performances in China's market. Compared with 92b23c22192e45361066f593, China's largest search engine, Google has lagged behind. It suffered a series of setbacks in the fastest-growing market, especially last year.

92b23c22192e45361066f593 was accused by China's Internet watchdog in January and April of last year of reserving porn contents and linking to other unhealthy websites.

Consequently, the Chinese agency made a decision in June to temporarily halt Google's outbound search services and its key words search business and urged the engine to rectify the matter.

In September, Kai-Fu Lee, who spearheaded Google's push into the mainland's market, resigned as head of Google China. Lee's departure was followed by successive resignations of other Google employees and the standoff of some of its local business.

By exiting from China, Google is by no means a political victim as it claims. Its departure is completely a failed result of competitions with other rivals in the fierce Chinese Internet market. Google's departure is not expected to cause large losses in China's Internet search business. On the contrary, the unwise move will leave more room for China's homegrown search engines, such as Baidu, to improve and to benefit from its search technologies.

For a long time, some other foreign Internet companies, including those in the US, have been covetous of the world's fastest-growing market. Google's exit as a powerful competitor will leave them more commercial opportunities. Upon its announcement, Microsoft, which has been vying with Google for the market share in search software, issued a statement saying foreign companies should only abide by local laws and rules to keep their business thriving.

The author is a researcher at the Development Research Center under the State Council.

Dell Computers has said it's exploring the possibility of moving its $25 billion operations out of China and expanding their operations in India. GoDaddy, the net's largest domain-name registrar, said Wednesday it plans to stop selling .cn domain names because it's unwilling to comply with new rules from the Chinese government that require new and existing .cn domain-name holders to provide photo ID. GoDaddy's lawyer, Christine Jones said. "We decided we didn't want to become an agent of the Chinese government."If China wants to continue to create an unfriendly environment for investment, fine. A lot of companies already are unhappy and getting more so. Just remember, whoever is the last to leave, be sure to turn off the lights.

Google need NOT TO BE HERE In CHINA. If it is in the country for business, it's fine BUT it appears it is working for U.S government now.U.S for several decades has been known for spying at other countries.In U.S, 8oogle has not charged or commented against the U.S government for hacking the Gmail of people U.S government wanted to put under surveillance. Why? U.S government was wise enough to make it a law BUT privacy and confidentiality? There's no such a thing in U.S but they are good at condemning other countries.Many suspect 8oogle is now a U.S gov. spy agent.Believe it or not, U.S government will defend Boogle and push its presence in every country.Chances are the CIA or NSA can monitor people of interest in other countries through Boogle, Boogle can monitor these people of their interest activity in its search engine and the contents of their Gmail if they have any be opened to US gov.

Google was just a tool of America for fulfilling its hegemonic designs.I congratulate chinese People for sustaining the immense pressure exerted by American Agents on the name of free media and right of information.Long live Baidu & Sina.

Those who own the USA also "run" the government - and want to dominate every nation on the globe. Every nation is on the "list" of the owners of the USA: China is on the top of the "priority" list and will be attacked continously with every possible tool and weapon of the "Soft War". Next on the list is Russia, followed by Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Brazil.

China Daily appear to have missed the very recent news that two of Google's executives in Italy have been given suspended sentences for breaking privacy laws.One of those sentenced said he is "still reeling" from the sentence.Meanwhile, Facebook is being hauled to the courts in the EU.Why are Hillary's friends all in the news at the right time fo the wrong reasons?

Google is the incarnation of Brtish East India Company which forced the extrajudicial claim on china in order to push opium to the chinese population.Google aimed for extrajudicial status to push the harmful CIA propaganda to incite the innocent chinese population and fulfil their China Containment dream.

Google has become but a political tool, overseas netizens say

Google Inc formally announced on March 22 it will end its self-censorship of harmful information in accordance with Chinese law by redirecting traffic from its Beijing-based search engine to its service in Hong Kong. The move triggered an intense discussion on 92b23c22192e45361066f593, and a majority of overseas netizens believes that multinational corporations should abide by their host country's laws. According to the netizens, Google has degenerated into a political tool of the US government to seek hegemony.

Foreign enterprises operating in China must abide by China's law

Most overseas netizens said that it is essential that Google abide by China's law if it wants to operate in China. Malaysian netizen HsunTze said that "Google is a good search engine. But it should play its role well in other countries if it wants to achieve its global strategy. In China, Google should respect and obey China's law and rules to regulate its operations. If not, there is no way but to leave China." Anthony from Thailand emphasized that "each country has a different history and background. The laws and regulations in each country are different, especially for China, which has 1.3 billion in population. You shouldn't expect every country must be the same as USA. Any company that operates in other countries must respect the law of those countries. If Google is not satisfied with China's rules, Google should leave China. "

Google has become a political tool to export American values and seek hegemony

Many netizens say Google has degenerated into a US government tool to seek hegemony. Helen from the UK said that "it is well known internationally that Google's initial start-up was funded by the CIA. Besides, Google now has links to all the U.S. Intelligence agencies, which is a well publicized fact." Australian netizen James added that "Google has finally shown its real intent! That is to use the Internet to subvert and control China. I suppose China and its citizens will not agree to hand over this control of information to Google and let it use it as a tool to carve up the Chinese nation."

Governments have the responsibility to ensure the safe flow of information

Most overseas netizens believe that it is necessary for governments to filter harmful information to reduce its negative impact upon society. American netizen John said that even in the US, Google practices censorship. "In the US, Google is obeying the Patriot Act, which means that it is spying on the email of an unknown number of people without their knowledge and without a court order as I understand it." Malaysian netizen HsunTze deemed it important to practice Internet censorship. "As a saying goes: Prevention is better than cure. It is wise and I agree with it. If good things are digested, it is good for body and mind. But if that good thing contains traces of poison, then such traces must be eliminated prior to distribution. It is vital to check, monitor, filter and remove the harm-causing elements so that only the good part reaches the public." American netizen CV pointed out that it is unfair for the US government to criticize China while it is censoring the Internet, too. "It is reasonable for Chinese government to censor the harmful pornographic, anti-China separatists and subversive information. The US government will in no way allow anti-US such as Al-Qaida and domestic and international Muslim extremist websites to be searchable by US citizens."

Google's withdrawal will not damage China's Internet development

Some overseas netizens deemed that as the fastest growing country in network with 384 million Internet users by the end of 2009, China's Internet development would not stand still in spite of

Google's withdrawal. Billy from France said that "Google has been struggling in China due to its mismanagement. Although Google claims that they have 30% of Internet search market in China, the Internet search that goes through Google's front end is only about 15%, and the number is declining rapidly. Google blames the decline on Chinese government's policy. All Google's competitors there play by the same rule, why are those guys growing fast while Google is declining?" Amy from the UK emphasized that "quite a number of Chinese Internet enterprises grow to be a giant from scratch. China's privately held Alibaba Group has reached Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions and successfully purchased 92b23c22192e45361066f593 in 2005, and its subsidiary 92b23c22192e45361066f593 is the global leader in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. This has proved to the world that Internet companies can succeed in China if they operate in the right way. Baidu defeats Google in the Chinese market. Compared to Google, Baidu does a better job in understanding the local market."

Google incident has nothing to do with China's investment environment

Quite a number of overseas netizens believe that Google's withdrawal is its own choice and doesn't mean the deterioration of China's investment environment. Michael from the UK said that "China's regulation on monitoring the search results hasn't changed or tightened. And Google's drastic response only shows that the mind of its management team or their motivation has changed." American netizen Netrogen said that "if this is 5 years ago, this threat may be feasible. But now with the emerging market in China's economy and growing fast to become the world's 2nd economy, China no longer views their withdrawal as a setback. As Premier Wen said, China still welcomes foreign enterprises. And believe me, they will regret it for the rest of their lives. For Google will never be able to stand up again in China's market." Asian Perspective from Singapore added that "China will not lose out with Google's withdrawal, but it is Google that will lose its strategic shares of the world market. Many companies are willing and will replace them in no time."

Capricious Google ruins its reputation

Many netizens questioned Google's morals and accused it of reneging on its promise and abusing its power. Japanese netizen Osaka said, "Multinational companies always assess the legal environment of their target country before deciding to start business there and Google would also have done this. Google's decision to start business in China proves that it accepted China's legal environment and then couldn't go back on his word. Otherwise its morals are under suspicion. Why did Google ask for privilege while other search engine companies are all abiding by China's law on censorship? Hasn't Google been advocating equality?" Peony from Canada asked why Google didn't refuse to censor search results immediately when it started doing business in China. "It's very likely that Google felt it had little effect years before but now it is different, 'I could make a difference now and ask them to change their rules for me.' "

i decicdes to stop using it although it is very useful for me

People are starting to doubt Google's intentions in America, too. The "readers' recommendation" comments on articles in the New York Times are even more negative about Google than the ones on China Daily.Also, JTM-LA is right. Their political alliance with the Obama administration is widely known in the states. Whether they will lose some of their political aspirations once a new administration comes to power, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure we've seen the Secretary of State making an awkward, weird speech about Internet freedom something-or-other for the last time.

Censorship is part of life - you actually don't think the American government does so in America? Then you must be one naive person - either that or you're stupid. There's censorship of internet in most countries, even well established ones. What Google is doing is unacceptable - it's like me going to your house and demanding that you obey my rules - how absurd!

Very typical of hypocrits to ignore facts. Who announced a unilateral pull-out unless China changes her laws? Who started a smearing campaign in the U.S. media? How had you expect the Chinese people to respond?If Google is an Australian company, the response would have been the same.

I would definitely dispute that US citizens cannot access the propaganda of al Qaeda. That is not what US law concerning search engines does. It does, as you say, allow the government (i.e., FBI) to spy on email without a court order in the event that they suspect the person has links to terrorist organizations or activities. i think this is terrible law, but it does not mean that the US's position on internet censorship is entirely hypocritical. They aren't censoring so much as invading privacy (hopefully only targeting legitimate targets).

Google should not think they can do anything in Hong Kong because they are wrong. Hong Kong is a part of China and China takes care of HK's security that's why Chinese soldiers station there.

Sedition and any attempt to split China is part of security which China will not just sit back.

In the US we require that all foreign companies doing business here follow all US laws. China has a right to demand the same from foreign companies such as Google. Google gives lots of money to the Democratic party, Obama's party. What you are seeing from Google is typical of US liberals who believe that they always know what's best for you and want to impose their values on you. It is supremely arrogant for Google to try and dictate policy to China. We have a saying here, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass".

If Google wants to pull out, that is their business. They should not be criticized for it. It is a business decision. Period! Chinese businesses can pull out of any country they want at any time. The intense dislike for everything American in China is startling. If Google was Australian, it wouldn't get more than a back page headline. If you feel so strongly that America is bad, stop listening to American music, wearing American fashions, emigrating to America, or sending your children to America for education. It's so hypocritical.

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