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China Rejects Google’s
Hacking Charge
(New
York Times, Jun. 7, 2011) China’s
official Communist Party newspaper issued a caustic response on Monday
to Google’s charge that Chinese hackers had taken aim at influential
users of its Gmail service, calling the accusations “political gaming”.
Chinese Leaders Ordered
Hacking on Google, US Diplomatic Cable Shows (AP, Dec. 6, 2010) Sources told US diplomats that hacking attacks
against Google were ordered by China’s top ruling body and a senior leader
demanded action after finding search results critical of him, leaked US
government cables show.
Google to Stop Redirecting
Users in China to Uncensored Site
(LA Times, Jun. 30, 2010) In a bid to maintain
its presence in mainland China, Google Inc. is changing how Internet users
there access its search engine after the Chinese government objected to its
strategy of redirecting them to an uncensored site in Hong Kong.
Google’s China Move Leads
Few to Change Course
(Washington Post, Mar. 30, 2010) Google's
announcement last week that it was shutting down its search site in China has
largely been followed by silence from the U.S. high-tech industry.
Google Finds Few Allies in
China Battle
(Reuters, Mar. 25, 2010) The deafening silence
from the U.S. corporate arena underscores how Google looks increasingly
isolated in its hope of rewriting the rules in the world's largest Internet
market by users
Google Shuts China Site in
Dispute Over Censorship
(New York Times, Mar. 23, 2010) Just over two
months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions
from hackers, Google on Monday closed its Internet search service there and
began directing users in that country to its uncensored search engine in Hong
Kong.
China Issues Warning to
Major Partners of Google
(New York Times, Mar. 15, 2010) The Chinese
authorities have warned major partners of Google’s China-based search engine
that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not, an
industry expert with knowledge of the notice said.
Google Says It’s in Talks
with China
(LA Times, Mar. 11, 2010)
Google Inc. broke a long silence in its clash with China as its chief
executive, Eric Schmidt, said that the Internet search giant was talking to
Chinese officials and that he expected "something will happen
soon."
China Rejects Google
Allegation of Massive Hacking Breach As ‘Fabrication’ By Cecilia Kang and Ellen Nakashima (Washington
Post, Jun. 2, 2011) Google’s allegation that hackers based in China accessed
hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S.
officials, drew angry denials from Chinese government officials.
Google Says Hackers in China
Stole Gmail Passwords By Aaron Back (New York Times, Jun. 2, 2011) Google said that the hacked
accounts included those of senior American government officials and political
activists.
China’s Renewal of Google’s
License Offers Hope of Resisting Censorship (Washington Post, Jul. 14, 2010) Though China may still interfere
when Chinese users seek Google searches from the Hong Kong site, Google's
action has shown that foreign firms needn't give up every principle to do
business inside China.
Google and China Agree on a
Fiction By Ryan Singel
(CNN, Jul. 12, 2010) oogle
got its Chinese visa extended, but that doesn't mean the company is having a good
trip or that China's
censorship has gone away.
China’s Thin Skin
(Editorial, Washington Post, Jul. 11, 2010) The regime's fear of criticism from its own people
calls into question the self-confidence that supposedly undergirds its
increased assertiveness abroad.
Google Compromise Pays off
with Renewal of License in China By
Keith B. Richburg (Washington
Post, Jul. 10, 2010) Google said that its license to operate in China had
been renewed, a surprise announcement that ended weeks of speculation over
whether the Internet giant would be forced to abandon the world's single
largest market of online users.
Google and China: the
Endgame By John Parker
(Asia
Times, Apr. 13, 2010) Although the dispute between the Chinese government and
Google continues to evolve, there were signs at the beginning of April that a
ceasefire may be taking hold, one that could allow both sides to plausibly
claim victory.
China: Defending Its Core
Interest in the World—Part II By Guobin Yang (YaleGlobal, Apr. 7, 2010)
Expect Chinese authorities to monitor public reaction to Google’s uncensored
Hong Kong search engine, and then decide whether an open internet is as useful
for them as it is for Chinese citizens.
Google and China’s Changing
Economic Paradigm By Gordon G. Chang (China Brief
10(7), Jamestown Foundation, Apr. 1, 2010) So far, we are seeing a spiteful
response from an angry government. And a government that will go to great
lengths to make sure the Chinese market is reserved for Chinese competitors.
Google’s recent troubles show us that Beijing
has a new economic paradigm, and it is not a good one.
Journalists’ E-Mails Hacked
in China By Andrew Jacobs
(New York Times, Mar. 31, 2010) In what appears to
be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights
activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by
unknown intruders.
Why Google Should Stay in
China By Yasheng Huang
(Washington
Post, Mar. 28, 2010) China
is no Soviet Union. Thanks to the Internet,
Chinese citizens have acquired the technological means -- although not yet the
full legal protections -- of free speech, defined as the ability to question
and criticize the government.
Google Searches for a
Foreign Policy By Mark Landler
(New York Times, Mar. 28, 2010) When Google
announced last week that it would shut its censored online search service in China,
it was doing more than standing up to a repressive government.
Stance by China to Limit
Google Is Risk by Beijing By Michael Wines (New York Times, Mar. 24, 2010) Google’s decision may not cause
major problems for China right away, experts said. But in the longer run,
they said, China’s
intransigent stance on filtering the flow of information within its borders
has the potential to weaken its links to the global economy.
Paper in China Sets off
Alarms in U.S. By John Markoff and David Barboza (New York Times, Mar.
21, 2010) The incident shows that in an atmosphere already charged with
hostility between the United States
and China
over cybersecurity issues, including large-scale
attacks on computer networks, even a misunderstanding has the potential to
escalate tension and set off an overreaction.
In China, Google Users Worry
They May Lose an Engine of Progress By
John Pomfret (Washington Post, Mar.
20, 2010) To many here, the Jan. 12 announcement foreshadowed Google's demise
in China -- and the end of something else: the notion that China would
continue to slowly evolve as a more tolerant nation
Net Produces New Generation
of China Activists By Anita Chang
(AP, Mar. 19, 2010) There is a vibrant community
of tech-savvy users who can easily hop over the "Great Firewall."
They are a minority of the 384 million people online in China but among the most vocal:
young, educated, liberal-minded and unafraid of questioning the Communist
government.
China Holds Firm against Google,
Says Firm Must Obey Its Law By John Pomfret (Washington Post,
Mar. 13, 2010) China's
top Internet regulator warned Google that it must obey Chinese laws or
"pay the consequences."
Google Wants U.S. to Weigh
Challenging China in WTO By Mark Drajem (Bloomberg, Mar. 2,
2010) The Obama administration is weighing the merits of taking China’s
censorship of Google Inc. to the World Trade Organization as an unfair
barrier to trade, a move that could further raise diplomatic tensions.
Why Google Can Say No to
China By Scott Moskowitz
(Boston Globe, Jan. 30, 2010) No brand is more
synonymous with globalization and openness than Google. If Google departs China,
it will represent a stunning failure on the part of the government to win an
invitation for its people to that all-important global party.
China Steps Up Defense of
Internet Controls By Chris Buckley
(Reuters, Jan. 25, 2010) China widened its attack against U.S.
criticisms of Internet censorship, raising the stakes in a dispute that has
put Google in the middle of a political quarrel between the two global
powers.
China Rebuffs Clinton on Internet
Warning By Mark Landler and Edward Wong (New York
Times, Jan. 23, 2010) Tensions between China and the United States over Internet
policy deepened, with the Chinese government accusing Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton of jeopardizing relations between the two countries with her
criticism of Chinese censorship.
China Hits Back at U.S. on
Net Freedom By Aaron Back
(Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2010) The Chinese
accusations also come amid increasing signs of tensions between the two
countries on a wide range of Obama administration priorities.
Clinton Urges Global
Response to Internet Attacks By Mark Landler (New York Times, Jan. 22, 2010) Declaring that an attack on one
nation’s computer networks “can be an attack on all,” Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a warning that the United States would defend itself
from cyberattacks.
China Paints Google Issue As
Not Political By Edward Wong, Johathan Ansfield and Sharon LaFraniere (New York Times, Jan. 21, 2010) The Chinese
government is taking a cautious approach to the dispute with Google, treating
the conflict as a business dispute and not a political matter that could
affect relations with the United
States.
Google Hopes to Retain
Business Unit in China By Miguel Helft
(New York Times, Jan. 20, 2010) Few people say
they think Google’s Chinese-language search engine will survive the company’s
confrontation with China.
China and Google: Search for
Trouble—Part II By Jeffery Garten
(YaleGlobal, Jan. 21,
2010) The China-Google tussle is about two visions of the future, about
openness and globalization vs. stability and nationalism.
China and Google: Searching
for Trouble By Jonathan Fenby
(YaleGlobal, Jan. 19,
2010) In the end, whatever happens to Google in China,
the most important issue of the year may be how China and rest of the world learn
to manage their increasingly testy relations.
Google Says It’s in Talks
with China on Search Engine
(Bloomberg, Jan. 18, 2010) Google Inc. said it
has begun talks with the Chinese government about the company’s plan to stop
censoring results from its search engine, after saying it may quit the
country because of cyber attacks.
No Chance Against China By
Martin Jacques
(Newsweek, Jan. 16, 2010) Google's fate is a sign
of the world to come, and the sooner we come to appreciate the nature of a
world run by China,
the better we will be able to deal with it.
Censorship Provokes Cracks
in China’s Great Firewall By david Pierson (LA Times, Jan. 16, 2010) Despite—and sometimes because of—increasingly aggressive
government measures, China’s Internet users are finding ways to evade the
country’s online restrictions.
U.S. Plans to Issue Official
Protest to China Over Attack on Google By
Ellen Nakashima (Washington
Post, Jan .16, 2010) The United States will issue an official protest to the
Chinese government over a major espionage attack targeting Google's computer
systems and rights activists' e-mail accounts that the search-engine giant
said originated in China.
Follow the Law, China Tells
Internet Companies By Andrew Jacobs
(New York Times, Jan. 15, 2010) Two days after
Google announced that it would quit China
unless the nation’s censors eased their grip, the Chinese government offered
an indirect but unambiguous response: Companies that do business in China
must follow the laws of the land.
After Google’s Stand on
China, U.S. Treads Lightly By David E. Sanger and
John Markoff (New York
Times, Jan. 14, 2010) It lays bare the degree to which China and the United
States are engaged in daily cyberbattles, a covert
war of offense and defense on which America is already spending billions of
dollars a year.
Google, Citing Attack,
Threatens to Exit China
(New York Times, Jan. 13, 2010) Google said
Tuesday that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and
consider shutting down its operations in the country altogether.
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