Mum's the Word On Google Attack At Davos

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 31, 2010 @10:30AM from the still-deciding-on-culprit-perhaps dept.

theodp writes "BusinessWeek reports that the cyber attack on Google was the elephant-in-the-room at the annual meeting of world leaders in Davos. 'China didn't want to discuss Google,' Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank AG and a co-chair of this year's World Economic Forum, said in an interview. China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang made that clear, he added. Even Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn't bring up China, and Bill Gates was mum on the topic in an interview. The reluctance of companies to talk about China illustrates the pressure on them to protect their business in the country, while the US government doesn't want to upset Chinese investors, said Andy Mok of Red Pagoda Concepts LLC. 'People have their commercial interests,' explained Deutsche Bank's Ackermann."

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Re:Soooo.... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-31 12:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oil is such a stupid, facile explanation for those wars, I can't believe people think they are reasoning when they come to that conclusion.
Those of us with more than a lick of sense can't believe all you idiots who still think it wasn't an oil war -- and on behalf of Big Oil, not the U.S. directly. Congratulations, you're a moron.