SAN FRANCISCO: China retaliated against tariffs from the United States on Feb 4 with a series of measures that took aim at US companies. Along with imposing tariffs and import restrictions, the country said, it had launched an antitrust investigation into Google.
The announcement of the investigation was vague – just one line on a Chinese agency’s website. But it thrust Google, whose search engine is unavailable in China, into the middle of a geopolitical dispute and added to the company’s long list of regulatory headaches.
