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Google's threat to pull out of China was motivated not by censorship, as the company said, but by business struggles
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010

Open quoteGoogle may use politics as its excuse, which is easy for Westerners to accept, but in essence this is just a business failure.Close quote

  • GUO LIANG,
  • director of the China Internet Project, saying that Google's threat to pull out of China was motivated not by censorship, as the company claimed, but by business struggles
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