Change of strategy in China: Google stops automatic redirection
Google no longer wants to automatically redirect Chinese users to its Hong Kong site. Beijing has threatened the internet company that it could lose its business license in the country. Google is now making do with a new Chinese homepage, on which a link to the uncensored page in Hong Kong has been placed.
Over the past three months, Chinese users have been redirected after Google no longer wanted to submit to the censorship measures of the Chinese authorities. The current change of course is intended to ensure that the search engine can continue to be active in China in the future, a Google representative told the industry service Pressetext." Google hopes to achieve a compromise with the new solution, as there is no longer any automatic redirection. The deadline for license renewal is 30 June. It is hoped that the authorities will respond soon, the spokesperson continued. If the authorities do not agree to the new solution, Google will no longer be able to operate a commercial site in China. A return to the previous solution is ruled out in any case.
