From Bloomberg:
Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said he expects China to renew the company’s newly revised application to deliver Web services in the country.
China, the world’s largest Internet market, has threatened not to renew the license because it took exception with Google’s attempts to sidestep the government’s censorship rules, the company said. The timing of the renewal decision is up to Chinese authorities, Schmidt said today at an Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
“Our operations in China are completely at the discretion of the Chinese government,” he said.
The application to renew Google’s Internet service provider license is being reviewed by the government and it may take some time before the results come out, the China Daily reported this week, citing the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman Wang Lijian. Google’s standoff with China began in January, when the company said it would stop censoring search results, violating government rules.
Read more about Google in China via CDT.
