Do you know? - Google dilemma II

Ever since the 1930s, when a Missouri-born man opened an ad agency in Shanghai and wrote a book called "400 Million Customers," the Chinese market has beckoned to American companies. And never more so than now, when the number of customers has grown to 1.3 billion and China is poised to surpass Japan to become the world's second-largest economy.

Competitive Advantage = Mud Wrestling! you tell me!

But Google's struggles here -- wrestling both with political compromises and with threats to its intellectual property -- raise the question: How much hassle are China's consumers worth?

It hasn't always been an easy calculation. Levi Strauss & Co. stopped making clothes here in 1993, citing "the pervasive violation of human rights," but then returned in 1998, saying that the company could do more good for human rights by working from within the country. Time Warner opened about a dozen movie theaters here but decided to sell them in 2007, after new laws required Chinese control and because of limits on the number of foreign films allowed. EBay pulled out in 2006, largely because of stiff local competition.

fanatics!!!

James McGregor, senior counselor for Apco Worldwide in China and author of "One Billion Customers," believes that more and more U.S. companies doing business in China are rethinking their presence.

By agreeing to Chinese regulations, Google has had to delete or block references in search results to the Falun Gong sect, the democracy movement, the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989 and the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama. Doing business in China has thus cast doubt on Google's devotion to its motto to "do no evil."

Ta ta Google's - Rest in Peace

That Google's decision to reconsider its business in China is an indication of the tough choices information and communications technology companies face around the world where respect for human rights is at risk. The Google's statement didn't indicate what its other members might do, however.

There is no 'one size fits all' approach to corporate responsibility, nor a single right course of action or script for all to follow...as i wonder!

stupid!! how?

In contrary, many people in China are confident that the size of their market will keep foreign companies from leaving. Chinese commentators from CCTV, China in the past two days have expressed confidence that Google will not follow through on its threat to exit the country.

Google me darling- i will come to you...wah!!!

I expects that Google will "clarify" its position, and possibly shut down its China domain site and keep everything else. Chinese netizens have grown into a huge number and giving up the Chinese market is equal to giving up half of the future.

The Gay finances in a straight world will be publish as schedule,despite the author is flying down comfortably (in buss. class) to his home town, Malaysia. Say thanks to auto-publish.