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You're right, it will be peace for our time if they bend slightly less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

No, it's not. "Everyone else is doing it" is not an excuse to help put people in camps.

It is if you doing it puts fewer people in camps than the alternative.

The entire point of entering the Chinese market is to make money. Google will make more money doing what the CCP asks well and without question. Putting less people in camps and playing games with the CCP means less money or even losing the Chinese market.

Which will never be how it works.

You think the Chinese government will accept Google deliberately making it more difficult for them to surveill and imprison dissidents?

You're out of your mind if you believe they would allow this in any way. They would sooner turf Google out on its arse than tolerate any interference.

The Chinese government WANTS Google. Think about why that is.

That's a pretty pathetic and inconsequential win.