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Microsoft Sees a Window in Google’s China Woes
Andrew Browne
Wall
St Journal
Thursday March 18, 2010
Chinese officials are masters of divide-and-rule, a tactic
they’ve put to good use to enhance their bargaining position
with the foreign business community.
So there was some eye-rolling among the more seasoned Western
business executives in Beijing, earlier this year when Bill
Gates weighed in on the Google vs. China imbroglio by criticizing
Google and offering a sympathetic assessment of the Chinese
position in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning
America.” “Bill Gates Bats for China,” read
a triumphal headline in the Global Times, a sometimes nationalistic
Chinese newspaper.
The charitable explanation was that Gates was expressing a
personal view.
Apparently not. It seems that this is now a part of the company’s
image-making in China. In an interview published Thursday in
the state-run China Daily, Microsoft’s chief research
and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, chides Google for its impetuous
behavior, and suggests that it should take a more mature approach
to China. “I think we feel good enough now (about Microsoft
in China). But it is a 20 year (journey) and not just three
years (like for Google),” Mundie is quoted as saying.
(The parentheses are China Daily’s).
Full
article here
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