Read the rest of the article:

But in a call with analysts, Mr. Schmidt made it clear the company wants to continue doing business in China, one of the world's largest markets, even though it will stop censoring its results.

There is no contradiction with their original statement, but it's very misleading of the WSJ to start the article with the quote you mentioned above, not to mention the headline: "Google Says It Is Committed to China as Net Soars"