Submitted by chinastock on Mon, 07/05/2010 - 08:51
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Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group submits:
This column originally appeared in Forbes.
Google's (GOOG) beef with China's government is making international headlines again. The company's Chinese license as an Internet content provider is up for renewal this week, and the government has made it clear it won't accept Google automatically forwarding Web surfers to an uncensored search engine in Hong Kong, as the company has done since January. In response, this week Google started sending surfers to a landing page where they have to click manually to get to the Hong Kong site, in hopes that that will placate the government.