The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that it opens an investigation into Google in response to customs tariff groups by 10 percent imposed by US President Donald Trump on Chinese imports. Minutes after the definitions came into effect, the Chinese state administration to organize the market said it was investigating the American technology giant for violating the anti -pregnancy law in the country.
The Chinese government may have been chosen strategically to pursue Google because it has limited operations in the country, ensuring that the blow to the American technology giant will be relatively small. This step gives China a lot of escalation if the Trump administration announces more definitions or other commercial measures. Google refused to comment.
China has also announced that it has placed more restrictions on the sale of some critical minerals such as tungsten, and the additional definitions of agricultural equipment, captured trucks, natural gas, coal and other goods from the United States. While the United States does not depend on China for all affected minerals, the country controls the majority of Tungstin supplies in the world, which are used in light bulbs, semiconductors, and ammunition.
“China’s position is constant and consistent. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in A. statement Sunday shortly after announcing the definitions. “This step cannot solve US problems at home, and most importantly, do not benefit both sides, still less than the world.”
China has kept Google at its intersection during the ongoing trade war with the United States over the past few years. In 2020, the government is said It is considered the opening According to Reuters. The deliberations followed a complaint from the Chinese communications giant Huawei, which was targeted by Trump during his first term.
Because of the US sanctions, Huawei is unable to use American -made programs such as Google Mobile Services, a group of tools widely used through the smartphone industry. The company’s restrictions forced the development of its operating system called Harmony OS.
But most smartphones All over the world is still running Android, which sparked competition investigations in a number of countries, some of which led to franchise changes designed to grant consumers and application developers more options and low fees. In China, several Smart phone makers Continue to rely on an open source version of Android.
Last December, the Chinese authorities also opened an achievement to combat pregnancy in NVIDIA, the chips maker who plays the treatment of graphics that play an important role in developing obstetric intelligence and has become an important source of trade between the United States and China. This announcement came shortly after the Biden administration tightened China’s arrival in high -end connectors.
About 15 years ago, Google Stop A search experience designed for China after a series of e -attacks related to Chinese government against it and other American companies. Google discussed the re -entering China with a search engine about seven years ago, but the project It was Scuttled After protests from some employees interested in supporting Chinese monitoring and control.
Google has also stopped not selling direct cloud technologies in China, as local laws can threaten assurances of the privacy and security it provides to customers in other markets. Other Google services such as YouTube are banned by Chinese Internet organizers.
China allowed local companies to buy ads through Google so that they can market customers abroad. But revenues from these deals are relatively small, and China did not mention Alphabet in the mother company The annual financial report last year. This contradicts the definition, Any lists China is among its largest markets in terms of the advertiser and said last year that advertisers are based in China It represents 10 percent of its annual revenues.