Google China Exit a U.S. Plot, State Researcher Says

Google's decision to redirect mainland users to an uncensored Hong Kong site is a "deliberate plot" to promote the "intrusive strategy" of the U.S. under the guise of supporting a free Internet, a researcher affiliated with China's Cabinet wrote.

"The search engine leader's exit from the Chinese mainland is a deliberate plot," Ding Yifan, a researcher at the Development Research Center under China's State Council, wrote in an editorial in today's English-language China Daily. "Google's case is in essence part of the U.S. Internet intrusive strategy worldwide under the excuse that it advocates a free Internet." Ding said the withdrawal was a part of "Washington's political games with China."