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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Communist Party newspaper accused Google on Wednesday of colluding with U.S. spies, and said the firm's retreat from China over censorship justified Beijing's efforts to promote homegrown technology.
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China's latest blast at the world's biggest Internet search company came in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the chief newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party.
Google on Monday shut its mainland Chinese-language portal Google.cn and began rerouting searches to a Hong Kong site, over two months after it said it would not accept the self-censorship demanded by China's government, which is determined to keep a tight grip on domestic users' access to the Internet.
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it regarded Google's departure as the "individual act" of one company, and said the country remained welcoming of foreign investors.
But Beijing's response to Google's complaints about censorship and hacking has also echoed nationalist-tinged claims that Google and Washington used the dispute over Internet controls to challenge Communist Party authority.
"For Chinese people, Google is not god, and even if it puts on a full-on show about politics and values, it is still not god," said a front-page commentary in the paper.
"In fact, Google is not a virgin when it comes to values. Its cooperation and collusion with the U.S. intelligence and security agencies is well-known," said the newspaper.
"All this makes one wonder. Thinking about the United States' big efforts in recent years to engage in Internet war, perhaps this could be an exploratory pre-dawn battle," the commentary said of Google's pull-out.
The overseas edition of the newspaper is a small-circulation offshoot of the main domestic edition, and often makes bolder comments than the main edition.
The commentary said Google's actions should prompt China to focus more on developing its own technology.
While the tough comments may not reflect official policy, they reflect China's anger at the United States after recent tensions over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, and Washington's calls for Beijing to lift the value of its yuan.
Google "completely misjudged the situation, and does not grasp that Chinese people are extremely averse to external threats and pressure", said the newspaper commentary.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday Google's decision to shut Google.cn was a business decision by the company and did not involve the U.S. government.
(Editing by Ken Wills)
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Mar 24, 2010 12:30am EDT
Chinese think all white people are working for the CIA. When I first came to china 6 years ago and spoke chinese to friends of mine, they always asked me if i was a spy. Whenever chinese meet a white person who speaks good chinese, they say he “must be a spy.” That is because they are brainwashed by their fake history they learn in school. But yet, very few chinese know that China has the largest spy agency that is not watching a foreign country, but watching all of them. China also has many spies that act as students in western universities. They are surprised when I say this; sometimes even angry at me for “lying.” It is sad sometimes how little the chinese people know about their own country and how the world views them. Chinese newspapers have too much control over the chinese people’s minds.
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Mar 24, 2010 12:49am EDT
The Chinese Government like all evil dictatorships makes claims that are so ridiculous that the civilized world reacts in shock and disbelief. Hopefully, the Chinese people will experience enough of the free world on the internet and world radio and want to revolt against these tyrants who endlessly spin lies.
PeterMMuer
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Mar 24, 2010 1:05am EDT
What are you scared of China? Funny how this westener gives the People from the “republic” more credit than the Chinese powers that be or should I say the soon to be powers that have been.
regalbeagle
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Mar 24, 2010 1:59am EDT
As a reply to blahhhhh (whatever) while in China i asked a few proud Chinese to tell me about the flag of China and to tell me what the stars meant. Knowing the answer, not a single Chinese citizen knew what the stars on their flag meant. I just could not believe this – for myself, my friend, my children, everyone knows what every aspect of the American Flag means. I guess this is the difference between a Living Flag and one that is DEAD!
The other item i found funny was they kept showing me things and then saying “is this the same as in the US, we really want to be like you!” This was not from one but many. I was kinda like a training mission, the real people of China are very nice and they want to be a part of the world, however, their government will not allow it unless it makes money for the government.
This is the same mentality that destroyed the USSR. You can’t build a nation with slaves and a population that is enslaven to serve the few in the government – it will collapse, and mark my words, within 3 years, in china, it will!
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Mar 24, 2010 2:04am EDT
Focussing back on Google: They DID filter their search results UNTIL they ran in to troubled times.
To me this is a bit like those people of WWII Germany who, come 1945, were quite adamant that THEY hadn’t supported Hitler.
Are there any other country-specific Google sites where content is filtered for local purposes?
I hear that BING filters sexual content for the becloaked folk of Arabia.
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Mar 24, 2010 2:05am EDT
You can’t blame them. In case us Americans don’t remember, we did maintain an empire once ourselves–and that empire was built out of pretty sketchy tactics. What non-western country hasn’t been bothered by a western country? We’re pretty racist/racy ourselves. Is it manifest destiny that guides us to correcting the rest of the world that runs differently than our country? By the way, why are we still maintaining spheres of influence in China? Do they maintain spheres of influence in our country? It’s not like China wants to bother the world, they just want to be left alone. And when some company associated with a very sketchy country goes into another country denouncing the way that country runs its people…If you’re in Rome, do what the Romans do. Otherwise, you’re acting like an invader. Thumbs down on American cultural-elitism.
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Mar 24, 2010 2:20am EDT
@blahhhhhh
You’re post doesn’t seem to make sense at all!
“Chinese think all white people are working for the CIA. When I first came to china 6 years ago and spoke chinese to friends of mine, they always asked me if i was a spy.”
If they asked you that, then apparently they weren’t your friends.
“…But yet, very few chinese know that China has the largest spy agency that is not watching a foreign country, but watching all of them.”
And if that was really a spy agency, how would you know about it? What you have isn’t even a conjecture. Are you sure you are not a spy? You went to China, and came back to report on how China sucks (on how it has a spy agency)? Spreading the word any?
“China also has many spies that act as students in western universities.”
You mean in Harvard? Why would you need a spy in Stanford? This isn’t Chuck from ABC you know.
” They are surprised when I say this; sometimes even angry at me for lying.”
I’m American and I think you’re lying…
“It is sad sometimes how little the chinese people know about their own country and how the world views them.”
What is sad is that people in the world’s most powerful country can’t view themselves from the outside. You can stand on a mountain and not know the shape of the very rock you stand on. Only from afar can you grasp the overall structure of a mountain.
“Chinese newspapers have too much control over the chinese people’s minds.”
Actually, newspapers are very opinionated in China, but that is because of Nationalism. Do you know why nationalism is so intense there? It is because nationalism helped protect the country from western invasion. Africa for example, was unable to resist western invasion because of a lack of solidarity there. “Black nationalism” grew out of the way America treated African Americans and it was nationalism that helped them sustain a civil rights revolution. Read Malcolm X any?
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Mar 24, 2010 2:54am EDT
tacowrap
Really? How long have you spent in China? How is your chinese?
You actually sound very chinese in your argument here.
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Mar 24, 2010 3:10am EDT
tacowrap
Your argument doesn’t make any sense either. China was one of the largest imperialist nations in Asia. During ancient times, they forced their neighbors to become tributaries to the empire, (korea, vietnam, tibet, xinjiang, ect.) During Mao’s time, they supported communist guerrillas in south Asia. Today, they continue to claim the south China sea even though the entire border of vietnam runs along the south china sea. China is nationalist, because their people have been brainwashed with the communist versions of history, but in fact, china is an imperialist nation calling others imperialists. Yes, the west has invaded china in the past, but if you look at US-china relations, you would see that the US in fact helped china the most. Unfortunately young chinese people (like you) don’t learn this history.
China is not only a traditional imperialist nation, but now they are also an economic imperialist nation. They have had huge tariffs on imports, such as car parts, for over 15 years. They flooded the export sector with subsidies during the crisis, and they pegged their RMB to the USD to gain benefits in exports. They want to create an export empire at any and all cost to other.
Now they are bullying Google. Baidu has been violating IPR violations for years, but Google is a foreign company. So, Google is the one who is held to the strictest of rules. This is xenophobic. Also, ask almost any foreigner who has lived in china for over 2 or 3 years and who speaks chinese if the the chinese are xenophobic and racist. Most who have spent a significant amount of time in the country will say they are.
Me, I have been here for 6 years, have studied my graduate degree in china using the chinese language, and have traveled all over the country. Maybe you should open your eyes or travel more. But, you seriously need to study more chinese history. (but I’m assuming you are a chinese youth or a racist chinese american. Or you are just an uninformed liberal who is condescending toward the chinese thinking they are little people who should be given more leeway than others. These kinds of liberals are disgustingly ignorant of reality. )
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