In response to Sergey Brin's comments earlier this week that Google had compromised its values by censoring its search results in China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that
foreign companies must abide by the country's laws. Google recently unveiled google.cn--a censored, Chinese-language version of its search engine that is hosted in the country--after the Chinese
government had restricted access to the search giant's uncensored U.S.-based Web site. In its statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said it takes a positive attitude toward working with foreign
companies like Google, but cooperation must exist "within the framework of the law." Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the Web firm reluctantly agreed to censorship demands, stating that it would be
better to have a presence in China--to help spread as much information as possible--than to not operate there at all. Google has taken a lot of criticism for its decision to work with China--both from
the U.S. government committee which disingenuously tried to heap diplomatic responsibility onto the Web firms operating there, as well as from activist organizations like Reporters Without Borders.
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