Google has always been a vehicle for U.S. espionage and information gathering. So, when China kicked Google out in 2010 this likely was one of the reasons for it. We here in the U.S. benefit business wise from what the U.S. government and Google do around the world. However, China didn't want Google there anymore just like they didn't want Monsanto's GMO Rice. This was just a part of China's self preservation from a Chinese point of view. I think we will see more and more actions like this by China.
Will the U.S. and China keep co-operating or will they come to blows? What is going on between China and the U.S. is more a war of attrition than anything else. It is not a big formal business war, but it is still going on all the same. IN some ways it has been going on ever since Kissinger and Nixon went to China long ago now. U.S. businesses have benefitted greatly from Chinese labor, even when the workers were all political prisoners from the democracy demonstrations at Tian an men. So, the U.S. business relationship with China has always been kind of strange for Americans. And to some degree it helped both countries. China's present economy would not exist without the U.S. and the U.S. would not have been able to buy so many things at reasonable prices for all these years without Chinese help.
But, sometimes I think the last 5 year downturn was more about cutting off the American market from the Chinese more than anything else for the U.S. Government. In other words the U.S. government may have gotten scared finally of Chinese economic success and might have had to try to make sure any further success didn't come from American buyers of Chinese products.
So, could the last 5 years have more to do with a type of economic warfare against the Chinese by the western world? I'm not sure but at times I am very suspicious of this point.
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Nov 11, 2010 - The world knows Baidu as the search engine that kicked Google's butt out of China, with an assist from the Communist Party. The company has ...Baidu vs. Google. How Baidu kicked out Google from China.
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