China on Thursday insisted Google's threat to quit the country over censorship and cyberattacks should not be linked to Sino-US ties, seeking to play down a simmering row over Internet freedom.
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China on Thursday insisted Google's threat to quit the country over censorship and cyberattacks should not be linked to Sino-US ties, seeking to play down a simmering row over Internet freedom.
Well then I suggest that those 700 000 companies leave China as well, and let's see how much of China's recent growth was as a result of foreign values or Chinese valuesIt urged the nearly 700,000 Western companies operating in China to "adapt to the market and to the diversities of Chinese society", adding: "China cannot be a colony of Western values."