China has renewed Google's license to operate in China. But Google has upheld American principles of free speech. It will no longer do censoring of search data for China. China will have to do its own censoring and when it happens it will be obvious to the user that their government is doing the censoring.
This is as it should be now. No American company should ever bow to a foreign company no matter how large or intimidating they might be.
Google's confrontation with China is probably the first of many to come for American information companies that want to do business in China. We should be prepared to face it, if we want to do business there.
We should not ever let China or any other country influence our business or government policies. This is a road to destruction of our freedoms and way of life. Just because a country has a billion or more people in its population and has giant marketing potential, should not affect our thinking when it comes to preserving our ideals, freedoms, or way of life.
Be vigilant in protecting our freedom and independence.
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