Google said on Friday that Beijing had renewed its operating licence, surprising many in the industry who had not expected the Chinese government to compromise in its censorship dispute with the US internet group.
In two lines of text posted on its own blog, Google said that the renewal of its internet content provider licence would allow it to continue providing “web search and local products to our users in China”.
The announcement means that Google can keep operating its google.cn website and removes the immediate threat that the US group would have to withdraw completely from the Chinese market, the world’s largest, with 400m users.
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