China has warned Google that it must obey government rules even if it decides to exit the country. On Tuesday, Reuters reports, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce said that among other things, Google must report to the ministry if it intends to shutter its Chinese operations. As it stands, the ministry has not …

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Tuesday 16th March 2010 14:01 GMT Stefing

With enemies like these...

Google on one side, Microsoft, Apple and the Chinese government on the other - this really is shaping up to be a battle of Good versus Evil.

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1. Tuesday 16th March 2010 15:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  huh?
  
  Where's the Good?
  
  It may be Evil A versus Evil B, while Evil C and Evil D may profit out of it
  
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2. Tuesday 16th March 2010 15:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  yes but..
  
  which is which?
  
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3. Wednesday 17th March 2010 08:56 GMT Trevor Pott o_O
  
  Business and politics.
  
  There is never a "good" choice. Merely a series of options to choose the "lesser of all evils," and have the most evil one win anyway.
  
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Tuesday 16th March 2010 15:03 GMT Steven Knox

Accounting 101

"It will not change the fact that most foreign companies, U.S. ones included, have a good business in China and generate large profits."

But at what expense?

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1. Tuesday 16th March 2010 23:16 GMT Fred Flintstone
  
  Ask Apple
  
  You may want to read what it says on the back of all iPhones - made in China.
  
  Methinks they're not doing too badly, also with keeping things secure there..
  
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Tuesday 16th March 2010 17:00 GMT Lou Gosselin

Surely google must know they cannot win.

China simply doesn't need google. The company does not provide any "must haves".

If google leaves, the condition was surely a cover. Google knew china would not change for them.

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Tuesday 16th March 2010 20:58 GMT Martin Owens

Proof

"It will not change the fact that most foreign companies, U.S. ones included, have a good business in China and generate large profits."

Proof if ever there was doubt, that China is not communist, socialist or any sort of left wing anything. Plutocratic Capitalism with state managed authoritarianism. Wonderful. Right wing _and_ right wing.

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Tuesday 16th March 2010 21:03 GMT Neil Stansbury

Don't be so sure

[...]It will not change the fact that most foreign companies, U.S. ones included, have a good business in China and generate large profits.[...]

Hmm... well you guys had better keep buying those US Treasury Notes Obama and Ben are minting willy nilly then, because if China can't keep the Yuan depressed against the US Dollar they'll be much less of those large profits to go around.

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