China’s retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs has thus far included a levy on imported American energy products, an extra fee on imported American agricultural equipment, and a menacing “antitrust” investigation of Google.
The Chinese are threatening a few other American companies as well, but Google looks like the biggest target so far. The Chinese government has been gunning for Google since 2010, when the Internet giant began resisting the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship orders.
Google moved much of its operation from China to Hong Kong and the company soon found itself on the far side of China’s notorious “Great Firewall,” a formidable network of censorship designed to make Western websites and social media platforms inaccessible to the Chinese population.
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