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- Title: To Stay Or Not to Stay, That's Politics: Chinese Netizens' Rhetorical Vision on Google's Leaving China (Report)
- Author : China Media Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 216 KB
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The Internet giant Google entered China market in 2006. On January 12, 2010, Google issued an ultimatum-like statement saying that disputes with the Chinese government on Internet regulation and major cyber attacks on the company that allegedly originated from China had forced the company to consider leaving the nation. Some Western media applauded the company's threat and portrayed Google as a guardian of human rights and freedom of speech. The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time to lend her support on Google's accusations. Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, also stated that the president backed Internet freedom. On March 24, 2010, the company moved its Chinese language search engine google.cn to Hong Kong. Google's threat and withdrawal angered many Chinese netizens, whose population was 384 million by the end of 2009, with 3.68 million websites and 180 million blogs. These Internet users have formed a unique and vociferous community. Witnessing the two months of the Internet row, many of them believed that the Google's threat of withdrawal from China was nothing but a political posture to cover its business failure in the Chinese market, an effort in the US Internet strategy to seek Internet hegemony, and a deliberate plot to damage China's image and to slow its fast economic development. A rhetorical vision that Google, a company with a "Don't be evil" motto, was actually doing evil in China was thus formed.