I think you need to read the communist manifesto and see how much of it actually relates to how china functions, but maybe not, who cares right ? Its just semantics. Who needs them when you can pull figures out of your ass (estimate is probably correct, but why on earth is it relevant here) and go off on one of your hobby horses (Intellectual Property etc, etc). China isn't, never was actually, communist, and isn't even Maoist these days either, but I digress.
The human rights issues are important, piracy isn't really important at all, thats a very consumerist/american concern that most us don't honestly give a flying fuck about as you know. If you think about it economically then you'll realise that the chinese system is as unsupportable as our own economic system is anyway. They sell to us, their internal market is not strong enough to support the manufacturing infrastructure they've built and nor is it ever likely to be. We pissed away our own manufacturing base a long time ago, its not that we can't compete, it's that we chose to move out of those markets a while ago. You can argue if that was a good thing to do or not sure, but the only way our markets could have continued to function with its large industrial/manufacturing base would be to impose massive state owned/subsidised manufacturing. In short, taking a communist or socialist approach. So.. you can't have it both ways, a free market (although there aren't actually any free markets in the world anyway) or a state capitalist, communist or socialist system ? Or Anarcho-Syndicalist even (for giggles).
Google compromised heavily in order to further their own expansion plans into Asia. They knew this shit would happen, anyone with the remotest insight into how China functions knew this would happen. Why the surprise ? Also, why on earth are they even trying to get uppity about it now ? they 'will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to china" ahahaha.. Those decisions were removed from the board the moment they floated their company, who are they trying to kid ?
Edit : Also if you think a company the financial size of google with its epic liquidity will be allowed to make arbitrary decisions about dealing with one of the USs largest trading partners.. well... this is all posturing. No idea whats behind it, but there is no way google can act without the nod from the US political structure.
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