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Spotlight on China's censorship
By - 04-09-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online

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The battle is not over. Google Inc.'s closure of its Chinese Web-search site, Google.cn, and relocation of the portal to Hong Kong last month is only a skirmish in the fight between the Internet giant and the government in Beijing.
Some see the move as the first real challenge to Beijing's mercantilism and a harbinger of a shift in thinking in the business community about the Chinese market. Some see Google's action as a bold statement on behalf of freedom; for others, it is an attempt to cover a failed business strategy. The truth is more mundane but just as important: Balances are always being struck between principles and profits, and the calibration process is a constant.



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