[Kadin]

That's only interesting to the extent that an organization has operations in China. Google was mostly ejected from the Chinese market years ago, I thought -- hence Baidu largely taking its place there.

It would be telling if despite that rejection, they were still open to taking direction from Beijing. Google at one point was fairly friendly with US DoD. Clearly the national loyalty of multinationals isn't guaranteed.

[yorwba]

Google was not ejected from the Chinese market, they decided to remove most of their products after Gmail was hacked.

https://www.google.cn used to show censored search results, now it only has a link to https://www.google.com.hk , which is blocked because it lacks search result censorship. But Google could use the domain for something new in the future should they choose to.

In particular, Google Ads continue to be available: https://ads.google.cn They even offer WeChat customer service!

As long as they can keep the ad money flowing, Google will comply with all necessary laws and regulations.