[DominikR]

Every company has to be cooperative with its government, or relocate/close.

It just happens that Google isn't based in China, therefore they were able to make the decision not to expand to China.

But in the US, Google will have to accept basically anything the government demands, as long as it is backed by the courts. (which isn't that hard since the government just invents secret courts based on secret laws that back almost 100% of the governments demands)