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Google merely closed their office in China and (passively) stopped offering their search and mail services. The money making part of Google (AdSense, Android) has been making a killing in China over the past decade. Despite the posturing on both sides, the relationship between Google and the Chinese regime is much cosier than people often assume.

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I don't think Chinese Regime and Google are any close to each other, your other remarks are also inaccurate.

Which part of my post was inaccurate?

Google still has access to the google.cn domain as well as several valid ICP licenses; a number of services (fonts, firebase and chrome/SDK downloads to name a few) are accessible from China hosted on a Google affiliated server in Beijing. AdWords have been thriving in China for a number of years and even the localised version of Google maps (ditu.google.cn) is still being maintained despite a nonexistent user base.

None of this would have been possible if the government is actually hostile to Google in the way you believe.

Source? It seems accurate, but someone is silently downvoating without clarifying, I feel in bad faith.

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