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The Google-China debacle has finally spilled over into Sino-American relations. The U.S. State Department said today that it plans to demand a Chinese government investigation into the cyberattacks on Google\u2019s (GOOG) computers, which the company claims originated in China. <\/p>\n
“We will be issuing a formal demarche to the Chinese government in Beijing on this issue in the coming days, probably early this week,” said State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley<\/a>. “It will express our concern for this incident and request information from China as to an explanation of how it happened and what they plan to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n What they plan to do about it?<\/p>\n Not much, if yesterday’s comments from Beijing are any indication<\/a>. Consider this report from Xinhua News<\/a>, the official press agency of Chinese government:<\/p>\n \n … cyber attacks are a commonplace issue across the globe even if countries have been making every effort to combat hackers.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, China’s largest Internet search engine Baidu, which is also Google’s major rival in the Chinese market, suffered an hacker attack that paralyzed its website for more than three hours.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has said that “There are attacks every day …We’re attacked every day from all parts of the world and I think everybody else is too. We didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.”<\/p>\n So it’s far-fetched to blame China as a scapegoat for cyber attacks just because Google said something about that.<\/p>\n In addition, it’s quite natural for a multinational company to shift its market strategy or even pull out business from a certain area.<\/p>\n Since Google.cn was launched in January 2006, it has seen a continuous rise in its market share in China. But it is still unlikely for Google to rock Baidu’s status quo as a superpower in the Chinese search market.<\/p>\n Baidu and Google took 63.9 percent and 31.1 percent of shares, respectively, of China’s Internet search market in the third quarter last year, according to data from Analysys International, a leading advisor on technology, media and telecom industry in China.<\/p>\n While Google’s global share is over 90 percent, according to web analytics company Stat Counter.<\/p>\n Till now, Google’s real intentions to quit China are still not clear.<\/p>\n There is no sense blowing things out of proportion and turning a business issue into a political or diplomatic dispute.<\/p>\n Above all, Google’s decision is no bigger than a corporate action, no matter where the company comes from or how powerful it is.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Clearly, Beijing has no plans to compromise–at this point, anyway.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n