China's retaliation against President Donald Trump's tariffs has so far included collections of imported American energy products, additional fees for imported American agricultural equipment, and Google's imposing antitrust laws. Includes surveys.
While the Chinese are also threatening several other American companies, Google looks like its biggest target to date. The Chinese government is Bombardment In Google since 2010, when the internet giant began to resist the Chinese Communist Party's censorship orders.
Google moved most of its business from China to Hong Kong, and soon found itself on the other side of China's infamous “Great Firewall.”
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Google returned to China in the late 2010s and attempted several attempts, including work on the search engines of China and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, but those projects were later abandoned.
Google still has several offices in China, mainly selling advertising and cloud services. Many Chinese companies with large international markets, such as e-commerce giants Temu and Shein, pay for heavy ads on Google.
For some reason, the state administration for market regulation in Beijing considered an “anti-trust” investigation into these limited activities on Tuesday. No details of the claim have been provided.
Associated Press (AP) Quote Analysts suspecting an antitrust investigation will target Android, Google's popular smartphone operating system. Most Chinese smartphone companies have licensed Android products, but Huawei, one of the biggest players, is It has developed A unique system after the company was hit by US sanctions in 2019.
Angela Chang, professor of law at the University of Southern California, said South China Morning Post (SCMP) On Wednesday, China “firing a warning shot at Washington” with Google's anti-trust probe and is “ready for retaliation.”
Huawei's Harmonyos has some invasions, Apple has fans, but Android is still on hold Over 75% of the market. The antitrust investigation may be intended to show that Chinese rulers are ready to take action that hurts their consumers.
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Bloomberg News Analyst I've taken it The opposite suggests that Chinese dictator XI Jinping wanted retaliation “cautiously coordinated.” Google is well-known in the western media and guarantees news coverage of anti-trust manipulation headlines, but so far, Beijing has rarely done so except to issue a press release.
Two other companies were targeted by China on Tuesday. This is Genetic Sequencing Company Illumina and PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Brands. Both were like that Put a Blacklist The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has superficially “damaged lawsuits against Chinese companies.”
PVH is viewed hostilely by the Chinese Communist Party boycott Cotton that can be contaminated by forced labor from the Uighurs of occupied East Turkestan. I'll compete With a major Chinese biotech company called BGI, which was scrutinized by US regulators last year.
When added to the blacklist, neither company had any further immediate penalties, but it qualifies for destructive punitive behavior. Already struggling with regulations designed to make products more expensive for Chinese consumers, Illumina has earned a 5% hit on the NASDAQ exchange after the blacklist was announced.
