Let's look at some statements in your post:
<i>Does anyone seriously think that a determined information-seeker in China can't find out whatever information he/she wants?</i><p><i>Google's move to pull out of China, aside from harming average Chinese people.</i><p>So "determined information seekers" could the information the information that Google <i>wasn't</i> giving but by no longer providing government approved data, Google is harming average Chinese? I know you're teasing out two different groups in China but the argument seems remarkably <i>stretched</i>.<p><i>China has long been a huge buyer of US treasury bills, in order to keep its currency low relative to the dollar. This helps make China's export industry more competitive but harms the Chinese in general.</i><p>Given that this policy has allowed China to gain the second largest economy in the world over twenty-odd years, how has it harm average Chinese?<p>I would certainly say this policy is <i>unsustainable</i> and needs to be adjusted for that reason. But that's a somewhat different matter.