He said he didn't want to talk about China while on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but then Google CEO Eric Schmidt went right ahead and did so anyway.
“We like what China is doing in terms of growth … we just don’t like censorship," Schmidt said, according to the Wall Street Journal. "We hope that will change and we can apply some pressure to make things better for the Chinese people.”
What would it take for Google to stay, a woman from China asked: “We would very much like to stay in China. We would very much like the censorship we oppose to improve in China.”
So far nothing has seemed to change from when Google drew a line in the sand on Jan. 12. Google is still in China, and hasn't said when or to what extent it would stop censoring content on Google.cn. China and the United States are in a mild war or words, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chastising "countries or individuals that engage in cyberattacks" and China firing back to mind your own business, not make this into a big deal and accusing the United States of hypocrisy and initiating cyberwarfare against Iran.
Illustration: Felipe Siem
