internet - Google China office merely a meeting room



The publicity storm about Google entering the China market seems to have been a bit of storm in a cup of water. The first questions on how large their China operation would be were raised by Danwei, who pointed out that the 'representative office' they are going to open would not really be able to do any business in Renminbi, and castigated Reuters for sloppy reporting.
It now seem that Google is only opening a representative office, that will merely function as a meeting room for passying-by employees. None of its employees will even work fulltime in China, according to the company spokeswoman.
Now, I wonder why all those media (and weblog's of course) have been spilling to much energy on what is going to be an expensive meeting room?


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