Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said in a recent interview that Google will have to respect the rules of the Beijing and also the government will decide whether to leave the country. Google will have to obey the rules of the Chinese government even if it decides to withdraw from the Asian country for the developments of Internet censorship and the action of hacking that has been victim said on Friday a spokesman for the Chinese government.
Investors have liquidated the shares of Google after the signals that the company could close its Web search site in China, Google.cn, two months after announcing that it will not submit to censorship rules imposed by Beijing and have reported a ‘action of hacking that would leave the territory of China.
Google has not announced any plan, leaving uncertainty about the possibility that users proceed unilaterally to remove the filter or Chinese censors to shut its portal.
In what appears to be a reminder that China would not like unexpected steps, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said that Google should also respect the rules by not remaining in the country.
“Entering the Chinese market in 2007, it was clearly committed to respect Chinese law,” said the spokesman Yao Jian reporters in response to a question on Google. Google has opened its Chinese search site in 2006.
“We hope that if Google will continue to operate in China or if you make other choices, will respect the rules Chinese lawyers,” Yao said at a routine press conference.
“Even if google went, should handle things according to the rules and adequately manage the other issues.”
Yao said that among the rules is that a foreign company must report to the Ministry of Commerce any plans to retire. Does not mince words, the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian, foreign companies, having worked on Chinese soil, they decide to leave China are obliged to report to the Ministry of Commerce.
It has reached this point after Google, according to revelations in the Financial Times a few days ago, decided to leave Chinese soil in recent years despite having reached the 30% market share in search field, far detached from Baidu.
The negotiations carried out by operators of google.cn and the Beijing government has stalled, it will not accept exceptions using filters applied to a variety of research inconvenient for China, especially with regard to Tibet.
It is not clear, in the absence of official confirmation, whether and how Google will leave China, under what conditions and do not know the fate of hundreds of people employed at the site of google.cn.
Google partners in China send a call and ask for explanations in Mountain View in a letter. Emphasize that their activities’ are at risk if Google left the country and ask how they will be rewarded.
In the letter, reported by the Wall Street Journal, the partner group says it has not received any indication about how Google intends to move. The companies note a decline in their activities’ that could result in bankruptcy.