Stance by China to Limit Google Is Risk by Beijing - NYTimes.com

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Google’s decision may not cause major problems for China right away, experts said. But in the longer run, they said, China’s intransigent stance on filtering the flow of information within its borders has the potential to weaken its links to the global economy.

It may also sully its image — promoted to its own people as well as to the international community — as an authoritarian country that is economically on the move, perhaps even more so than the sclerotic, democratic West.

Stance by China to Limit Google Is Risk by Beijing - NYTimes.com