(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Internet behemoth Google’s site recently carried an announcement indicating that unless China resolves issues with filtering information and hacker intrusions, it would consider pulling out of the country.
China Beat has helpfully compiled several of the more thoughtful recent analyses to come out of the Google vs. China debate. For example:
NPR’s Fresh Air program, “Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug at a Time.” Fresh Air contributor Dave Davi…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.
The move to sell arms worth $6.4bn comes as relations between Washington and Beijing have been tested by tensions at the Copenhagen summit, a Chinese missile test and the cyberattacks on Google
Eric Schmidt, facing a grilling in Davos, showed that leading Google is much like running a successful if secretive nationGoogle is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if it was – kept repeating the point at a briefing he gave at Davos this afternoon. They didn’t have a police force, [...]
Thomas Crampton interviewed Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s Center on US China Relations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos about Google in China:
One key issue in the confrontation, Schell said, is that Google has become more …
In Japan Times, author Ma Jian writes about the arrest of Liu Xiaobo, Google, and China’s growing economic clout:
History is said to repeat itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. And it is indeed farcical for China’s government to try …
Twitter is hoping to find technical ways to help users in China and Iran evade censorship to use their service, the Financial Times reports:
Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, which has been credited with helping anti-govern…
Imitation search engine and video site emerge amid standoff between China and real Google over censorshipImitation websites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is owned by Google and blocked in China. The [...]
Davos: A new digital cold war is afoot. At stake is something much larger than just a rivalry between the western and eastern superpowersFour cheers for Google. Risking the loss of potentially huge long-term profits in the Chinese internet market, it has struck a blow for one of the great causes of our time: global [...]