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The Australian
BREAKING NEWS
Google denies leaving China
The Google announcement captured the attention of China's 384 million netizens, the world's largest internet market by users, with blogs and local media quoting unnamed insiders as saying Google has already decided to close its offices in China.
Google has denied that, saying the company is still in the process of scanning its internal networks since the cyber-attack in mid-December. Google also said it would hold talks with the Chinese government over the next few weeks.
China has tried to play down Google's threat to leave, saying there were many ways to resolve the issue, but insisting all foreign companies, Google included, must abide by Chinese laws.
JPMorgan analyst Dick Wei said he thinks Google's relationship with the Chinese government is already strained and if the firm decides to stay, it could be subject to tighter regulations.
UBS analyst Wang Jinjin also believes Google's relationship with advertisers has been damaged as a result of the threat and that they will choose Baidu Inc over the firm.
The New York Times
Can Google Beat China? – An open debate hosted by the NY Times
When Google made the surprising announcement on Tuesday that it would no longer censor search results in China, it was applauded by human rights advocates around the world. Since China isn’t likely to allow unfiltered results, which would bring up banned topics, Google would have to quit operating google.cn, its Chinese search engine.
China at Odds With Future in Internet Fight
BEIJING — At the elite Tsinghua University here, some students were joking Friday that they had better download all the Internet information they wanted now in case Google left the country.
Chinese Site Criticizes Investor for Its Google Support
In an unusual move, the Alibaba Group of China on Saturday criticized Yahoo, one of its largest shareholders, for siding with Google after a cyber attack on that company.
Scaling the Digital Wall in China
The Great Firewall of China is hardly impregnable. Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censorship systems designed to restrict them.
6 Major Powers Move Closer to Considering More Iran Sanctions
UNITED NATIONS — Six major powers agreed Saturday that the Iranian response to proposals to altering its nuclear development program had been inadequate and that it warranted consideration of further measures by the United Nations Security Council.
What’s Our Sputnik?
Dick Cheney says President Obama is “trying to pretend that we are not at war” with terrorists. There is only one thing I have to say about that: I sure hope so.
And what does the war on terror give us? Better drones, body scanners and a lot of desultory T.S.A. security jobs at airports. “Sputnik spurred us to build a highway to the future,” added Mandelbaum. “The war on terror is prompting us to build bridges to nowhere.”
The Age
A bunch of hacks
John Garnaut
THE possibilities that spin from the Google-in-China and China-in-Google story are potentially game-changing, and they may reveal more about vulnerabilities in China than the rest of the world. Sources who have been briefed on the investigation say the cyber-hacking that prompted Google to step towards pulling out of China was more about theft of source code than tampering with Gmail accounts. Censorship was also important, but a separate issue.
Kaixin - John Garnaut has an interesting take on the google issue. He has missed one point though, I think, that has its basis in a quote I like. I am unsure of the exact wording - a government that is powerful enough to ensure your freedom is also powerful enough to take it away.
John Garnaut's article points out that the west has by far the more superior technology (that is backed by many other sources in this debate). If that is the case then governments in the west also have far superior means of accessing our private internet traffic. They, of course, would never do this.
Nor would they support hacking into China's or any other countries sensitive institutions.
Something to ponder.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Chinese censors take aim at texts
CHINA has started scanning text messages in the latest move to step up censorship. Customers of China's two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risque messages, state media says.
New Chinese brand targets Australia
A CHINESE car company backed for hundreds of millions by US investment guru Warren Buffett plans to set up shop in Australia within two years.
BYD — short for Build Your Dreams —
is one of the most ambitious of the independent Chinese car companies.
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