Recently, Google made a very bold and very public threat that they would pull out of China due to concerns over increased censorship and sophisticated hacker attacks that they have traced to China. If it happens, it will come as a shock to business analysts everywhere, since China is the #1 growing market for something Google covets – internet users.
There has always been friction both within and outside of Google concerning their operations there. Before building a complex there and establishing Google.cn, Google had to consent to a certain degree of self-censorship in order to be approved by the government, an idea they were never comfortable with. Read more…