Ar article considers Google's pullout of its market in China is political and is tantamount to suicide. Below is a summary of the article:
China has the largest internet population of approximately 400 million, and the largest mobile phone population of approximately 800 million. China's internet population is expected to double in less than a decade. To abandon the Chinese internet market by any major internet company, for whatever reasons, will be tantamount to corporate suicide.
China will continue its policy that internet search companies operating in China, either Chinese or foreign, impose self-censorship against certain contents that the Chinese government deems harmful to political stability and social sensitivities. No one seriously expects that China will change its position because of Google's chutzpah.
By labeling China as the internet devil and the United States as the internet angel, without regard to the true realities on the ground, Google is becoming a political company.
A political Google is a threat to other major U.S. companies like Microsoft and Yahoo.
A political Google is unfair to the 400-million internet users in China, many of whom actually like the Google services.
A political Google is unfair to China, who has done so remarkably over the past three decades in welcoming foreign companies to its shores and relied upon many of these foreign companies to a large extent in its economic transformation.
A political Google is a danger and a hazard to hundreds of its business partners in the Chinese mainland. After all, what will happen to the millions of dollars of advance advertisement fees already paid to Google? What will happen to the careers of thousands of Google employees and tens of thousands of employees in its partners' companies throughout the Chinese mainland?
A political Google is unfair to China's internet industry. Google seems to have declared that because Google came to China, therefore China started to have internet services.
A political Google is damaging to the relations between China and the United States, which are already the two most important economies in the world and whose close cooperation is urgently needed across a whole range of international issues.
Ultimately, a political Google will be a disaster to the shareholders of Google, because the value of Google as a company will eventually be eroded and destroyed by Google's political chutzpah.
Therefore, Googlecide. Given its huge size and prominence in the industry, Googlecide may take years or even decades to show its real effect.
Googlecide for Google is an unfortunate thing, and hopefully will be avoided and prevented through wisdom and vision and courage. Meanwhile, the sun will continue to rise in the east, and the Chinese civilization will continue to thrive and prosper, with or without Google.(Source: Crienglish. com, Apr 2, 2010).