Google is threatening to do something that very very few large companies would dare--leave the China market.  The giant of the Internet announced yesterday that it would  "stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations," according to the New York Times.  In 2006, Google agreed to purge results of government-banned topics from its searches in China.  But after a Google investigation allegedly revealed that a series of cyberattacks on computer systems in California that targeted Chinese human rights activists, Google made its move.  

This seems to raise the question now of who needs whom more: Google or the Chinese market.  The Wall Street Journal's Hong Kong bureau chief Peter Stein spoke with Journal technology reporter Andrew LaVallee about the news: