Google And China Could Soon Reach a Resolution
Bertrand Vasquez | Mar 11, 2010 | Comments 0
Ever since Google made the surprising announcement that it would stop censoring search results in China, and that it might even close all of its offices in the country, the world has been wondering if the Mountain View-based company was in talks with Chinese government officials to try to reach a favorable resolution. Turns out both parties are indeed discussing the issue.
As a matter of fact, China Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong stated last week that China is in consultations with Google to resolve the dispute [source].
We also now learn that while speaking at a media conference in Abu Dhabi, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said:
“I can’t really say anything other than that we’re in active negotiations with the Chinese government, and there is no specific timetable. Something will happen soon.”
This is the first time since the announcement that the search engine giant confirms they are currently engaged in negotiations with the Chinese government. Although it’s still very unclear how much progress has been made to this point, which makes it hard to speculate what the outcome of such negotiations will be.
Google is still very secretive about what its going behind the scenes. “We are still weighing our options,” said Google vice president and deputy general counsel Nicole Wong to the Senate Judiciary committee just a few days ago.
More coming soon.
[ via Wired ]
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