Google Inc. tarnishes totalitarian China

It’s not sure, thus far, whether Google, globally acclaimed US internet giant will pull out from China finally, but the situation has already become sour and if no miracle happens in the meantime, this is the final option for Google Inc. China seems adamant at the moment. Now the question remains whether this (attempts to hack Gmail accounts of human rights activists) is anything new. Perhaps not and if we heed copious numbers of security firms having good presence in China, this has been a regular affair almost.

However, before proceeding to anything else we must have a good knowledge of present-day China. The country under the communist hegemony has witnessed long days of arduous struggle and in spite of being under the dogma of “collective leadership” is, to put it briefly, an adherent of the principle “party controls the gun”. For that reason anything critical of China and CPC is exceedingly eye sore to the indigenous governance of People's Republic of China, whether it is the Tiananmen Square-famed tank man or human rights activists fighting tooth and nail for Freedom for Tibet to Falun Gong supporters and those involved in Liberation of Taiwan.

It is to be noted each of the aforementioned causes and their supporters remain under the strictest surveillance of CPC and PRC and there is no wonder, taking cue from the recent statement of Mikko Hypponen, of security firm F-Secure, hacking of email accounts of select persons under the auspices of PRC is a day-to-day affair. Nevertheless, defiance of Google is not only uncanny but first-of-its-kind since the majority of companies dealing with the same undue government interferences don’t dare to go public. It has to be taken into account that Google has operated in China ever since 2006 and as per its latest statement, it is no longer willing to censor results on its Chinese search engine as the government call for.

There is another question as well. Is it really the handiwork of PRC government or some excessively potent private bodies? Well, Google Inc. has the conviction that perpetrators or cyber-criminals are highly organized (may find it difficult to wok without a strong backing like government) and hail from China, without a shred of doubt.