Ein Hackerangriff - und schon droht Google mit dem Rückzug aus China. Und zwar wegen Zensur und Menschenrechte und so. Da das für den Internetkonzern, ebenso wie Yahoo und andere, bislang kein Argument gegen Geschäfte in China war, wird spekuliert.
Kaum ein Thema war in den westlichen Medien bisher, wie die Chinesen den möglichen Rückzug beurteilen.
Liu Hongbo sieht China über Google und MSN mit dem Rest der Welt verknüpft:
"Whether we’re talking about MSN or Google, these are not just services but forms of culture. They represent the online lives of many people, and they have helped to build many people’s conceptions about the Web. Their existence in China does not just serve to provide competition for Chinese players. As important Internet brands, they demonstrate the Chinese Internet’s connectedness to the global Internet."
Der Chefdesigner der chinesischen Suchmaschine Baidu wirft Google Unehrlichkeit vor:
"The tone of the top Google legal advisor disgusts me. He could have said that they are withdrawing for economic reasons, plain and simple. Instead, they have to make themselves look good by saying that Google was attacked by Chinese people, that Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents were attacked, and so on in order to explain why they are withdrawing from China. This type of tone is an insult to the intelligence of the ordinary Chinese citizens. But it may just appeal to certain supercilious westerners who have never been to China, know nothing whatsoever about China but like to criticize China all the same.
I will simply offer one hypothesis. If Google holds a 80% share of the search engine market in China, will the Google senior managers announce that they will withdraw from China because they "do no evil" in such a high profile manner. The only feeling that I got out of the whole affair is disgust."
"It is unlikely that they will go through with this. If they go through with it, it will be their loss... I personally think that this is merely psychological warfare. For the global Internet industry, a huge part of the market would be missing without China. The future development of the Internet is towards 3G with many services. It will be a huge blow to Google's global strategy if it did not have the China market. In the long term, it will have problems with its mobile phones, mobile operating systems and related services.More importantly, will the Chinese government departments come under pressure if Google withdraws from the China market? Not a single government department will be held responsible or come under pressure if Google withdraws."
Jiang Baijing sieht China ohnehin in der stärkeren Position:
"If Google really withdraws, they will lose the China market. Can they bear it? I don't think that a big multi-national company can really abandon the largest market with infinite growth potential. Will Coca Cola leave China? No. Will Pepsi Cola leave China? No. Will Microsoft give up the China market? No. Would Google be the only one to give up? I don't think so."
P.S.: Im Zusammenhang mit der internetworld.de-Berichterstattung ist mir was Witziges passiert. Normalerweise behaupten Journalisten, dass zensiert wird, und die Gegenseite widerspricht. In diesem Fall war es genau andersherum. Nachdem via Twitter User aus China bestätigt hatten, unter der Bildersuche "tianamen" Fotos von Panzern angezeigt zu bekommen, hatte ich gemeldet, dass Google.cn offenbar unzensierte Ergebnisse anzeige. Kurz darauf hatte ich Google-Sprecher Kai Oberbeck am Telefon, der darauf bestand, dass das Unternehmen weiterhin zensiere. Die Auflösung lag in der Transkription der chinesischen Schriftzeichen:
"tianamen" > Bilder von der Niederschlagung des Aufstands
"tiananmen" > hübsche Bilder vom Platz
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