But government tries to tamp down drama
(NEWSER) - Google is a puppet of US foreign policy, Chinese state-owned media are reporting, calling the company's threat to pull out of China unless censorship is dropped a conspiracy by the US government to interfere in Chinese politics. One paper quotes a political scientist saying, "the Google incident is not just a commercial incident, it is a political incident"—a direct reversal of the Chinese government's previous response to the brouhaha and a move that threatens to escalate US-China tensions, CNN reports. More»
