[KWD]

That China can take your business assets, cancel any agreement, or even put your employees in jail, is part of the risk assumed by any company that chooses to do business there. This incident is not going to change the way business is done in China. Foreign companies just see the billions of potential customers, and will bend over backwards (and risk losing investment) to do whatever they need to get access to that potential (and human rights be damned). Even Google is not wanting to pull all of it's business out of China, so they can't really be given too much credit for what they did with just the search engine.

[fnid2]

Isn't this how business is done in most countries? The countries have laws and if the businesses want to enter the market, they have to follow the laws of the country?

It seems like this debate is mostly irrational and hypocritical support of Google and a nationalistic anti-China sentiment.

The U.S. does exactly the same things China is doing now. They prop up GM and not honda or toyota. They bail out U.S. banks, but not HSBC. They retroactively change the laws to enable AT&T et al to violate the constitution.

Why the hypocrisy?

[jongraehl]

Why the false equivalence?