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Google will get its China licence
SEARCH ENGINE Google's CEO Eric Schmidt apparently believes the company can resolve its differences with China's government over operating in the country.
He told Reuters that Google expects to have its operating license from the Chinese government renewed, allowing it to continue to offer Internet search and other services to Chinese users.
Schmidt said the company has been "restructuring its Chinese business" for many months after deciding to stop censoring its Chinese-language search services earlier this year.
It began directing queries from mainland China to a version of its search service it doesn't censor hosted out of the country in Hong Kong.
However the Chinese government said it would not renew Google's licence if the company continued that practice.
Apparently Google has come to some sort of compromise with the communist mandarins in China. Still, we preferred it when Google was standing up against censorship. µ
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For this article to say that Google is redirecting it Chinese users to a service outside the country of China to Hong Kong is a little misleading. For those not yet aware...Hong Kong IS without question a part of the country of the People's Republic of China, and therefore subject to Chinese law.