With enemies like these...
Google on one side, Microsoft, Apple and the Chinese government on the other - this really is shaping up to be a battle of Good versus Evil.
China has warned Google that it must obey government rules even if it decides to exit the country. On Tuesday, Reuters reports, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce said that among other things, Google must report to the ministry if it intends to shutter its Chinese operations. As it stands, the ministry has not …
"It will not change the fact that most foreign companies, U.S. ones included, have a good business in China and generate large profits."
Proof if ever there was doubt, that China is not communist, socialist or any sort of left wing anything. Plutocratic Capitalism with state managed authoritarianism. Wonderful. Right wing _and_ right wing.
[...]It will not change the fact that most foreign companies, U.S. ones included, have a good business in China and generate large profits.[...]
Hmm... well you guys had better keep buying those US Treasury Notes Obama and Ben are minting willy nilly then, because if China can't keep the Yuan depressed against the US Dollar they'll be much less of those large profits to go around.