Google Inc. is in talks with the Chinese authorities.
Google and the Chinese authorities decided to discuss the relationship at the negotiating tableRecall, after the recent cyber attacks on the service Gmail, in organizing of which the PRC government is suspected, the U.S. Internet giant refused to follow instructions of the censors, and promised to withdraw business from the country.
Enforcement of threat is disadvantageous to both sides. Companies need talented Chinese engineers working in the Research Center of Google, and prorofit from the sale of advertising in China net and Google Phones.
The Celestial Empire needs such rich IT companies like Google, without which the ambitious country can not achieve leadership in the global market of high technologies.
Even if they have to close the service Google.cn, the company will retain the possibility to preserve the Beijing Research Center, and sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. About 700 people work here (the global state of Google is 20 thousand).
The observers disagree about the result of negotiations. Some people believe that the Communists will be flexible and will not impose the rules of Google Internet censorship.
Other experts point out that the main part of advertising, which is bought by Chinese users, is located on Google.com, so that the company may be willing to compromise and close Google.cn.
In addition, American resource of search engine supports Putonghua. Until 2006, when the company had opened Chinese site and began to censor web search, it was quite enough.
Partly confirmed suspicions that Chinese hackers had acted on orders from the government, affected American authorities.
The countries exchanged harsh statements about their views on freedom of speech on the Internet. Bill Gates calmly and competently stated that businessmen who are of sound mind, do not leave China in yesterday’s TV program “Good Morning America”.
