Comments on: How Google.cn Censorship Works http://www.gordonchoi.com/how-google-cn-censorship-works-20100317?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-google-cn-censorship-works Web Analytics Insights, SEO/PPC Tools/Tips, Google Plus Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:28:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fabian Ahmadi http://www.gordonchoi.com/how-google-cn-censorship-works-20100317/comment-page-1#comment-141738 Fabian Ahmadi Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:25:44 +0000 http://www.gordonchoi.com/?p=4794#comment-141738 Google is exiting China, the decision seems to be made. One way to look at this is to factor in the wider political climate in which this decision was conceived: I'm thinking about the ongoing dispute between the US and China over exchange rates, for example and demands from Congress to penalize Chinese imports. Public sentiment regarding China might prompt other businesses exiting the Chinese market as well. Google's exit, in a way, is a response to public sentiment in the US and Europe and further contributes to it. We might look back at this as the beginning of a new era from a geopolitical point of view. After the collapse of the Communism in Eastern Europe, and the "end" of the East-West conflict we entered into a 20 year long phase that reconfigured the global power balance. I'm not gloomy or pessimistic... but this could be the beginning of a new global divide between the West and China (with Russia doing who-knows-what). In any case, I'm no expert on politics, I'm just expressing amateur thoughts... Google is exiting China, the decision seems to be made. One way to look at this is to factor in the wider political climate in which this decision was conceived: I’m thinking about the ongoing dispute between the US and China over exchange rates, for example and demands from Congress to penalize Chinese imports.

Public sentiment regarding China might prompt other businesses exiting the Chinese market as well. Google’s exit, in a way, is a response to public sentiment in the US and Europe and further contributes to it.

We might look back at this as the beginning of a new era from a geopolitical point of view. After the collapse of the Communism in Eastern Europe, and the “end” of the East-West conflict we entered into a 20 year long phase that reconfigured the global power balance. I’m not gloomy or pessimistic… but this could be the beginning of a new global divide between the West and China (with Russia doing who-knows-what). In any case, I’m no expert on politics, I’m just expressing amateur thoughts…

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