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I cannot fathom why. What's the best case scenario? China lets them operate for long enough to absorb the tech they want and then give them the boot? Or is the best case scenario Google just continues to bow to China for the foreseeable future and are allowed to profit in exchange for subjugating the Chinese public?

Neither scenario smacks of success to me.

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You make some good points.

I think Google would need to make an unacceptable faustian bargain with the CCP to gain access to the China market for e.g. cloud services.

I guess the obvious risk is that the CCP begins with a small demand, and than gradually increase the demands over a long period of time.

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