The Chinese government is taking a cautious approach to the dispute with Google, treating the conflict as a business dispute that requires commercial negotiations and not a political matter that could affect relations with the United States.Officials were caught off guard by Google’s move, and they want to avoid the issue’s becoming a referendum among Chinese liberals and foreign companies on the Chinese government’s Internet censorship policies, say people who have spoken to officials here. There have been no public attacks on Google from senior officials or formal editorials in the newspaper People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/world/asia/21china.htmlAlso see:China Says Google Case Not Linked to Ties With US [AP]
China says the dispute it is having with Internet giant Google should not be linked to its bilateral ties with the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/21/world/AP-AS-China-Google.html
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