A year after a major conflict between Beijing and Google is the tool for mapping the search engine, Google Maps, which could be outlawed in China. Since May, services like Google Maps or Google Street View are subject to government authorization to operate in China, but Google, which has until March 31 to file a license application, has not yet done so, reports the Chinese press.
According to the official Xinhua agency, which does not specifically name Google mapping services online since 2008 have committed more than 1,000 violations of the law, including the release of confidential information and errors in the Boundary the country. Errors that were not always to the disadvantage of the People's Republic of China last year, the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by Beijing, had seen all place names in Mandarin move suddenly.
But mistrust of the Chinese state to mapping services is old. Since 2008, the government filed suit against the systematic mapping sites. Some were accused of subversive acts including because it lists Taiwan as a country. ARM OF IRON AND ECONOMIC POLICY Google and Beijing are engaged in a standoff that has seen many developments since last year.
After being hacked for major accounts like Gmail Chinese activists for human rights, the search engine, backed by the United States had indirectly accused Beijing of having covered these attacks, triggering a economic and diplomatic conflict. Google had announced it would cease to censor its search results as required by Chinese law, exposing themselves to a threat of outright closure of its operations in China.
A strange compromise had finally emerged: Google is now channeled the searches by his Chinese Hong Kong version, which is not subject to censorship. After several months of calm, the search has again accused China in early March to try to spy or to block the messages exchanged through Gmail.
The answer came from the People's Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party: In an editorial in the March 4, the newspaper likened Google to the East India Company, the spearhead of British imperialism in China in the nineteenth century . Baidu, the search engine most used in China, also has its mapping service.
But does not face the same problems. Besides its proximity to the government, the search has taken a preventive measure to avoid original critical equivalent of Google Street View: Baidu is simply replaced by his photographs of landscapes drawn reconstructions that are reminiscent of the game Sim City. 
According to the official Xinhua agency, which does not specifically name Google mapping services online since 2008 have committed more than 1,000 violations of the law, including the release of confidential information and errors in the Boundary the country. Errors that were not always to the disadvantage of the People's Republic of China last year, the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by Beijing, had seen all place names in Mandarin move suddenly.
But mistrust of the Chinese state to mapping services is old. Since 2008, the government filed suit against the systematic mapping sites. Some were accused of subversive acts including because it lists Taiwan as a country. ARM OF IRON AND ECONOMIC POLICY Google and Beijing are engaged in a standoff that has seen many developments since last year.
After being hacked for major accounts like Gmail Chinese activists for human rights, the search engine, backed by the United States had indirectly accused Beijing of having covered these attacks, triggering a economic and diplomatic conflict. Google had announced it would cease to censor its search results as required by Chinese law, exposing themselves to a threat of outright closure of its operations in China.
A strange compromise had finally emerged: Google is now channeled the searches by his Chinese Hong Kong version, which is not subject to censorship. After several months of calm, the search has again accused China in early March to try to spy or to block the messages exchanged through Gmail.
The answer came from the People's Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party: In an editorial in the March 4, the newspaper likened Google to the East India Company, the spearhead of British imperialism in China in the nineteenth century . Baidu, the search engine most used in China, also has its mapping service.
But does not face the same problems. Besides its proximity to the government, the search has taken a preventive measure to avoid original critical equivalent of Google Street View: Baidu is simply replaced by his photographs of landscapes drawn reconstructions that are reminiscent of the game Sim City.
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