internet - Has Google deleted Tibet?

That is at least suggested by Birdhouse who has checked Google Earth. Dan Gillmor suggests this is Google trying to brown-nose the Chinese government. If that is so, they seem to have picked a rather strange way. Is Taiwan still there? And Hong Kong? The nice thing of those satellite pictures is that you do not have to color all these places, so everybody is free to dream who is in charge.
Can you imagine the Chinese government to ask Google to delete Tibet? If I would be in charge to those things in Beijing, deleting Tibet would really make me upset. We have seen this more often, Google trying to imagine what Beijing would imagine when.... Just one advise: do not try to imagine those things behind your desk in California.