The dust has settled a bit in China since Google threatened to throw in the towel that would be heard ‘round the world. Here are the cliff notes for their reasons:

1. Google.cn, as well as a number of other world companies, have recently been attacked by Chinese cyber hackers
2. The goal of some attacks was to hack into the Gmail accounts of known Chinese hum ...

This morning over dumplings, we decided to do a quick search about the ShangHai 2010 EXPO. We visited BaiDu, China’s most popular search engine. But, much to our surprise, we were delivered a “Server Not Found” page.

Expats in China get used to these "failures to connect" when we are attempting to access “harmful” sites, such as FaceBook, Twit ...