The newspaper Financial Times reported today that Google is “99.9%” convinced that it terminates it’s search engine in China after talks with the government . The talks with China regarding censorship reached an apparent impasse and Google says it has “99.9 percent” sure that it is closing its operations in the country
According to a source quoted by the paper, Google could leave China even in the short term, but probably will wait a little longer for the output to be organized and the company can take measures to protect employees from reprisals from the local government.
Yesterday, China warned Google – which has a 30% stake in the local market – about the consequences of not obeying the laws of the country. The company is also studying ways to maintain other operations in the country, but executives fear that pressure from Chinese authorities would make it virtually impossible to stay in the country, said the FT.
The other company’s business in China, prior to the launch site Google.cn four years ago, include a research center in the capital Beijing and a team of ad sales. The conflict between China and Google began two months ago, when the site threatened to leave the Chinese market after denouncing an attack from Chinese hackers against accounts email dissidents, journalists and businessmen.
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