I wonder whether Google has figured out/decided that China is a one way flow of intellectual and strategic resources, and that it does not serve their long term business interests -- which depend heavily on the free flow of information -- to have a significant portion of their activity captured by a regime not just repressive but with its own, over-riding agenda that brooks no competition.<p>The current events are troubling, but I imagine the decision makers at Google are also looking at the long term implications to their business.<p>That is to say, even without the current crisis, China as currently governed and managed may be a poor long-term bet for Google.  Both in isolation and as part of a world economy still in the process of being defined and subject to influence by decisions such as this.