As a latest activity in tug of war between Chinese authorities and Internet giant Google, the former one has reprimanded Google for going against the Chinese laws and threatened him of consequences if overruled Chinese laws. It is evident that in January Google announced that it would, by any means would not follow Chinese censorship laws and even threatened to shut down its operations in China.

Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong while speaking at China’s annual legislation session said, “We need to preserve our nation’s interest, our people’s interest, we cannot be relaxed with any information that will cause harm to the stability of our society, to our system, and to the health of our under-age young people,” he said. “So, of course, what needs to be shut down will be shut down, what needs to be blocked will be blocked.”

When Google started its operations in China in 2006 it faced criticism for compiling with Chinese censorship laws. However, Google saved its face by stating that it was serving a public interest though it was censoring furnished results. Relations between China and Google became tense once again this year in January, when Google described it as a systematic and sophisticated cyber attack under which e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were targeted. Since the day, Google is in conversation with Chinese official about providing unfiltered service within previews of the law. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said this week that he hoped the results of those consultations would be revealed soon. Mr Li reiterated that whether the Google quits China or not is “up to them”, despite Google would flourish in China.