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Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10
A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: "Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. 'I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,' the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day."
I support Google in this. Censorship is BS and should never be tolerated.
I heard their key employees have already been hired by Baidu, MS and Alibaba several weeks ago. Google.cn had to hire new people two weeks ago to keep the company running. And top three managers of google.cn decided to start their own search business.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
The vast majority of people in Taiwan can speak Mandarin.
Official language at Taiwan is mandarin, and the language called Taiwanese is the same dialect used in south of Fujian province. So the most part of spoken language is ok. The writing system is the problem. Taiwan use traditional character set, and mainland China use simplified character set.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
GP is justified in his concern. Over a tiff over Australian-Chinese ore trade, China arrested four employees from the Australian firm Rio. Australian officials are banned from the proceedings.
See:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I18V20100319
Expect Choogle to come online by the end of April, in direct competition with Google.
Well, it already exists; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
The only problem is, a lot of people in China find Google better for some purposes, (including party members, according to a report I heard).
You'd better believe that if the Chinese Gov did not want Google to stay, they would have already thrown them out...
Way to fuck up the real quote dude.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum" -- Roddy Piper
The quote from 'They Live'
Baidu = China's #1 search site
MS = Microsoft (I'm assuming that's who the GP was referring to)
Alibaba = Wholesale manufacturer search site
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