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Following its announcement that China-based hackers had targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists, Google is rethinking its strategy in China, where Internet access is closely circumscribed. The company, whose credo is "Don't be evil," said it will no longer censor results on its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, and may stop operating in the Chinese market altogether...
...hour days in a textile factory - Bob sets about quietly educating Farren, her 9-year-old brother Ian (Will Shadley) and kid sister Nora (Alina Foley), 4, in social graces. Eventually he has charmed and awed them into submission, by inadvertently putting them in the crossfire between some evil Russkies and his CIA contacts (George Lopez and Billy Bob Thornton), and by exposing himself to grievous bodily stunts...
China invented fireworks some 1,000 years ago in hopes of scaring away evil spirits. On Monday, it successfully tested a missile-defense system aimed at scaring away the U.S. from defending the island nation of Taiwan. By shooting down one missile with another, China demonstrated its growing military prowess. But it also telegraphed its anger over last week's sale of U.S. Patriot interceptor missiles to Taiwan. Taipei would use the Patriots to blunt any attack by Beijing's 1,100 missiles poised just across the Taiwan Strait. China has threatened to use force should Taiwan, which...
...decision to offer a censored search page prompted an outcry from human-rights activists and some members of Congress that the company was turning a blind eye to its "Don't be evil" motto for the sake of access to the lucrative Chinese market. "Google came into the market bending some of its own rules," says Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting in Beijing. "It was intoxicated with the prospect of this enormous and still just-beginning-to-develop market. I think it always knew it was already having a little bit of misgiving about being in the market...
Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower