After hearing about China VS Google, I support China. Google is making a big mistake if it decides to leave China. It is also tempting me to make a decision of entering Baidu.com. It is hoped that Baidu could create a webpage in English and in Spanish. After all, Baidu is better than Google.

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Roberto Carlos Alvarez Galloso

As a Finn, I enjoy my priviledge to choose my filters as individually as I can, fully aware of the technical possibilities of CIA to watch and control technically my individual internet behavior generally and my searching functions specifically.

Personally I haven´t such state secrets. So, I prefer Google to Baidu - and not only because of linguistic reasons.

Tuomo

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Panta rhei

China Mainland locked YouTube, Facebook and other social networks... Now they start dirty games with Google.
I would not be surprised if one day all China Mainland territory will dissociate the barbed wire and turn into a concentration camp for Chinese residents!!!

I like China and Chinese people but I hate stupid genocidal policies of the Communist Party of China.

 

 Yaroslav (Listener from Ukraine)

 

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I would not be surprised if one day all China Mainland territory will dissociate the barbed wire and turn into a concentration camp for Chinese residents!!!

I like China and Chinese people but I hate stupid genocidal policies of the Communist Party of China.

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 Yaroslav (Listener from Ukraine)

Yaroslav, I think your idea is simply polemistic nonsense based on Western stereotypes and horror scenarios. I would be very surprised to see "a Chinese concentration camp for Chinese residents" and for global markets. I wouldn´t work in the most concrete meaning of that word !

Taking into acount the global markets the only ideological basis for such totalitarianism would be nationalism. In the long ( or shorter) run It would be quite impossible to find the necessary guards for such slave work in such a concentration camp taking into account the ethnic distribution of the People´s Republic of China:

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, where some 91.59% ^[1] of the population was classified as Han Chinese (~1.2 billion). Besides the majority Han Chinese, 55 other "nationalities" or ethnic groups are recognised in mainland China by the PRC government, numbering approximately 105 million persons, mostly concentrated in the northwest, north, northeast, south, and southwest but with some in central interior areas.

The major minority ethnic groups are Zhuang (16.1 million), Manchu (10.6 million), *** (9.8 million), Miao (8.9 million), Uyghur (8.3 million), Tujia (8 million), Yi (7.7 million), Mongol (5.8 million), Tibetan (5.4 million), Buyei (2.9 million), Dong (2.9 million), Yao (2.6 million), Korean (1.9 million), Bai (1.8 million), Hani (1.4 million), Kazakh (1.2 million), Li (1.2 million), and Dai (1.1 million).

Source:

List of ethnic groups in China

The comparison between search functions of Baidu and Google and the relation of this subject to the state structure of the People´s Republic of China is somewhat different. I think Chinese people or the Chinese state don´t need outside paternalism ( neither benevolent nor malelvolent) to handle the case about filters - or their state structure.

Tuomo

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Panta rhei

I'm not going to argue with you. But my ideas are based on communicating with ordinary Chinese people.

I repeat only what I hear from the Chinese people. For understand China we need to hear all points of view, not only propaganda articles.

Tuomo, get behind the radio propagandas for a while and go talk to ordinary Chinese people. You'll see the real picture of life.

 

OK. I´ve got to find some Chinese propaganda sister and hear her private opinions

Tuomo

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Panta rhei

I am very surprised that you a foreigner supports BaiDu.For a Chinese,I prefer to use Baidu than google,because Baidu is a main Chinese website,which is very convenient for our Chinese.Of course, sometime,I use google,and I think it is also a good searching website.

But,I find that google is more liable to present webpages in English.Frankly speaking,i prefer google.In addition,Baidu has on at least one time been trapped in bribery scandal with certain merchants.So,it's far from responsible to lead the  searching engine market in China.