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If the Chinese government is going to hold some google employees responsible (for whatever), do you think reiterating that statement is going do anything?

Don't be partisan.

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> Don't be partisan.

In what sense?

China is not stupid. They already look bad, and retaliating by ruining a few Google employee's lives is not going to make them look better. When China starts alienating the western companies, they are simply going to leave, leaving China with nothing. That would not be good for them, so I think they will try and avoid it.

The Chinese Government simply does not care what others think of it - especially the west.

All you need to do is look at the case of Stern Hu and Rio Tinto to find out how much the Chinese Government cares about its reputation amongst western corporations.

I don't think you're right. They seem to have a policy of strong censorship, but not at any cost. I think this applies to related are as well. Controlling the costs of their censorship is important to them. So, for example I wouldn't be surprised if one of the things they asked themselves was 'If we block Google completely, are there any services that we can't live without?'

Interestingly, Stern Hu pleaded guilty to bribery recently:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Stern-Hu-...

Are you surprised?

How long do you think it took for them to beat it out of him?

We'll have to wait for the sentence to be handed down, if any jail time / execution is handed, that would really be interesting!

It's true. It's time to impose sanctions and deal with the consequences.

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