Google is hoping to offer its cloud services to Chinese companies Tencent Holdings and Inspur Group.<\/p>\n
Competing against its rivals Amazon and Microsoft, Google is looking to partner with major Chinese cloud providers and deliver services such as Google Drive and Google Docs to the country.<\/p>\n
According to Bloomberg<\/em>, Google was in talks with Chinese firms at the beginning of 2018 saying, if the company was to accept its offer, it will create a Chinese version of its search engine that blocks out sensitive information including government documentation.<\/p>\n Following this, the tech giant also revealed that it would\u00a0hire a Shanghai-based\u00a0employee to manage their cloud operations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a coup for the Chinese government and Communist Party to force Google\u00a0\u2013 the biggest search engine in the world\u00a0\u2013 to comply with their onerous censorship requirements, and sets a worrying precedent for other companies seeking to do business in China without compromising their core values,\u201d wrote six US lawmakers in a letter to Google\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n It’s unclear if the plans will proceed following trade tensions between the US and China.<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google is hoping to offer its cloud services to Chinese companies Tencent Holdings and Inspur Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[871,1158],"tags":[771,102,1712,1522,3061,1551,3060,3059,1064],"yoast_head":"\n