• The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, June 29, 2010 12:48 PM

In a game of high-stakes diplomacy, Google now says it plans to change how Web users in China access its search engine in light of objections from the Chinese government over its recent strategy of redirecting users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong. "It's unclear whether the small change to Google's Chinese site will meet with Chinese government approval and lead to the extension of the company's license to provide online content in China," reports The Wall Street Journal.

In a blog post late Monday, Google said it had resubmitted its application to renew the license, which comes up for renewal on Wednesday. Three month ago, Google said it would stop obeying the Chinese government's requirement to censor search results, which it had been following since the China-based site opened in 2006. Since then, rather than provide users with censored search results, Google has been automatically redirecting users of google.cn -- its mainland Chinese address -- to an uncensored Hong Kong-based site, google.com.hk.

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