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Re:CNNIC's response to Google by chkuendig on Thursday April 02, 2015 @02:07AM (#9308935)
Android in China is AOSP or 3rd Party forks, NOT google android.

There are no google services in china, so it's definitely an easier stand to take for Google than for its competitors doing business there.

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Re:CNNIC's response to Google by TheDong on Thursday April 02, 2015 @05:01AM (#9309401)
It's the reverse; there are no Google services in China because they already took a stand.

When the Chinese government demanded to be able to sniff all traffic, Google fought back, refused to play cozy enough with the government, and gave up its chance at a foothold.

There's a whole wiki article on this mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#Ending_of_self-ce...

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