BEIJING: China renewed Google’s licence to operate after a months-long standoff over Internet censorship, saying the company had pledged it wouldn’t provide “lawbreaking content.”
The California-based giant said on Friday that it had received approval to operate in the world’s most populous country, after it agreed to stop automatically rerouting users of Google.cn to its site in Hong Kong, which is not subject to China’s online censorship.
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