encyclo - 2:37 am on Jan 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Google has relatively little to lose in China

... apart from the long-term potential that comes from a billion-plus population in a country with a technology and wealth boom, maybe? They went from nowhere to more than 25% of the market in four years against strong competition from Baidu, which was always the Chinese government's preferred company. Google's progress in that market was significant.

More like that Google has nothing to lose because they can't hope to run a successful business while catering to the whims of a corrupt, totalitarian government whose attempts to censor and control include state-sponsored criminal activity aimed at Google's core systems.