China announced retaliatory measures against the U.S., including tariffs on imports and an antitrust probe into Google. This move escalates tensions between the two economic superpowers.
China announced retaliatory measures against the U.S. on Tuesday, including tariffs on imports like coal, liquefied natural gas, and crude oil. Additionally, they launched an antitrust probe into Google and placed two other U.S. firms on an unreliable entity list, potentially barring them from investing in China. This move escalates tensions between the two economic superpowers.Google's history in China is complex. The company launched a Chinese-language search engine, google.
cn, in 2006, which was heavily censored to comply with Beijing's regulations. At its peak in 2009, it held approximately 36% of the Chinese search market. However, in 2010, citing a cyberattack and growing unwillingness to censor search results, Google shut down its Chinese operations, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. China subsequently blocked Google services, including Gmail, Chrome, and its search engine, through its Great Firewall censorship system, effectively making them inaccessible within mainland China.While Google's core services are blocked in China, the company maintains a limited presence focused on sales and engineering for its advertising business. It also has employees working on services like Google Cloud and customer solutions. The reasons behind China's antitrust investigation into Google remain unclear. Regulators have not provided specifics, but the announcement coincided with the implementation of 10% tariffs imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump. Some experts speculate that the investigation centers around Google's dominance in the Android smartphone operating system and serves as a bargaining chip in the U.S.-China trade war. Android's widespread adoption, with most smartphone brands (excluding Apple and Huawei) licensing the system from Google, could be the focus of the probe. John Gong, a professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics, believes the investigation is likely negotiable. He notes that Google has faced similar antitrust allegations in other countries, including the European Union, South Korea, Russia, India, and Turkey, for allegedly abusing its market dominance
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