Only three days after Google announced the end of its censorship services in China on March 22, criticism of Google has disappeared from the headlines of the Chinese regime's mouthpiece, Xinhua news online.
In contrast to its previous criticism of “United States-backed information imperialism,” the Chinese regime has now played down the incident as an “individual act by a commercial enterprise.”
China analysts believe this is a tactic to quickly divert public attention away from the incident for fear that Chinese citizens may raise more questions regarding the details of the censorship and the regime's control of information.
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