Typical Chinese train of thought - from one Chinese guy to another, drop the macho hyper-aggressive posturing, it's not sexy, and the chicks don't dig it.<p>I did find one point interesting though, and I'm assuming you're a young, internet-savvy Chinese guy:<p>&#62; <i>"Every other US company has been able to survive except whiny little Google"</i><p>Does this include the myriad of US websites that have been blatantly ripped off by Chinese domestic companies? I'm assuming you're a user of Xiaonei (an almost verbatim clone of Facebook, including UI and page design, even color scheme) - can you defend the blatantly unoriginal, downright thieving tactics of Chinese tech companies when it comes to "competing" with their American counterparts? Perhaps this Chinese "outclassing" of yours is simply because many Chinese companies never put in the resources to develop anything of their own, preferring to steal and pilfer instead.<p>Perhaps Google is leaving because, as every other nation (not only the West) knows, the Chinese as a whole have fundamentally no respect for hard work. As a Chinese I am ashamed to admit this, but the truth deserves to be told regardless of how it reflects on my people: Chinese culture has no respect for the work of others, and ripping off is so normal that one hardly bats an eyelash. Whatever Google does in China will merely be copied verbatim, there's almost no point in staying in a market where all of your hard work counts for just about nothing, and there's no rule of law to protect this work from unscrupulous thieves.<p>[edit] Also, the only reason GE is "doing fine" is because nobody's yet figured out how to clone entire power plants. Look at companies like Apple, who originally had to import iPhone screens from Germany to avoid having the designs stolen and sold to the highest bidder by merely manufacturing it in China. This is embarrassing and shameful to me as a Chinese - we are <i>rightfully</i> known as a nation that cannot be trusted, cannot be respectful of what is rightfully someone else's. We are known globally as a nation of unscrupulous people who will throw away all semblance of civility and justice to succeed - I am ashamed to be associated with this, but yet it <i>does</i> reflect our business culture very accurately.<p>Instead of constantly looking at every move like a threat against China, and instead of looking at everyone like an enemy, perhaps China's greatest enemy is itself: we are overly aggressive, we always seek to win by someone else's destruction, and we seem incapable of forming transactions where one side doesn't get screwed. We are <i>not</i> team players, and this is going to be a very severe limitation on the advancement of China as a whole until we culturally un-fuck ourselves. Drop the constant victim complex - not everyone is out to get you.