By Ahamed Sha
(News-and-Society / International)
Google has hold back the launch of its first and foremost mobile phones in China, a further sign of the widening outcome of its judgment to defy the Chinese government over cyber-attacks, cyber-security and Internet freedom. The firm said in a proclamation that it was pushing back the release of Google-muscle phones made by Samsung and Motorola that had been listed for Wednesday.
Mobile giant China Unicom, which like other Chinese company giants has close ties to the China government, had been slated to offer help for the device, however with Google's future in that country now in uncertainty, the U.S. tech giant understood it would be "careless" to introduce the Phone at this time.
Motorola has already fabricated 20,000 mobile phones for China Unicom's Google phone venture, while Samsung has fabricated 10,000 mobile phones.
Cascading Result
A Google speaker in China stated a Wednesday launch function had been called off and declined to say when the phone program would be restarted, according to an Associated Press report out of China. Meanwhile, a Chinese Foreign Ministry talking head announced that Google must observe Chinese regulations and traditions if it wanted to stay in the country, the government's first and foremost direct answer to Google since the corporation opposed the Chinese government 1 week ago.
The Chinese government's robust stance indicates what many already predict: There is small likelihood of the communist regime bowing to Google's persistence that its Chinese-language search engine be uncensored progressing forward.
The Google phone establishment hold back is the latest in a row of cascading results since Google's choice previous week to threaten to set aside China after a considerable cyber-attack starting off in the world's largest country give in its corporate security. The cyber-attack, which laser-targeted Chinese human rights employees and political protester, provoked Google to proclaim it would no longer censor its search findings in China.
In a note to clients Tuesday morning, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a geopolitical intelligence group, called the Google dispute with China, "the most considerable development in the last decade of U.S.-China relations -- the most main bilateral relationship in the world now."
Western Firms Face Hardship in China
The China Phone debate also suggests that while Google has gathered worldwide support for its position -- in China, public were laying flowers at its Beijing headquarters -- the financial end results may be bigger than the company had initially predicted. On the other hand, Google would have had to have been shockingly naive to have thought its dispute with the Chinese government wouldn't extend beyond the core arguments over cyber-security and Internet freedom.
"This conflict isn't really about the great firewall," Bremmer said. "It's much more fundamental. It's about the relationship between firms trading in China and the Chinese government."
Already, the dispute has gone into a high-level diplomatic debate, after the U.S. government announced its backing for Google and stated it would formally demand an explanation from China over the attacks. Cyber-security firms have discovered the basis of the attack to agents connected to China's sprawling intelligence apparatus.
Meanwhile, Google is examining whether one or more of its employees may have taken part in the attack against it, a possibility which, if correct, suggests that the corporate could have had a Chinese government agent, or agents, working for the company.
