The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that Donald Trump would begin investigations into Google in response to 10 % of tariffs imposed by the US president. Minutes after the tariffs began, the Chinese state government announced that it was investigating the US technology giant to potentially violate the country’s anti -monopoly law.
The Chinese government may choose strategically to look for Google because it is limited in the country, and ensuring the US technology giant will be relatively minimal. If the Trump administration announces more tariffs or other trade measures, it will provide a lot of space to increase. Google refused to comment.
China has also announced that it has put more restrictions on the sale of some important minerals such as tungsten and slapping extra tariffs on farm equipment, pickup trucks, liquid natural gas, coal and other goods from the United States. While the United States is not dependent on China for all minerals, it controls the majority of the world’s tungshes, which are used in lamps, semiconductors and ammunition.
“China’s position is firm and consistent. Tariff trade and warfare have no winner.” This move cannot solve US problems at home and most importantly, neither party is in favor of the other world. “
China has kept Google in its seats over the past few years. According to Reuters, in 2020, the government is intended to launch anti -monopoly research on Google Android trade. The discussions were followed by the complaint of the Chinese communications giant Huawei, which was targeted by Trump in his first period.
Due to US sanctions, Huawei is capable of using US software such as Google Mobile Services, a set of tools that are widely used in the smartphone industry. These restrictions forced the company to develop its operating system, Harmony OS.
But most smartphones all over the world are still on Android, which has led to competition research in a number of countries, some of which have led to changes in points that are given to consumers to consumers. And program programmers have more options and less costs. In China, several smartphone makers continue to trust the Android open version.
Last December, Chinese officials also opened anti -monopoly research on NVIDIA, whose GPU plays an important role in the development of productive artificial intelligence and has become an important source of trade between the United States and China. The announcement came soon after the Biden government firmly strengthened China’s access to high -level semiconductors.
About 15 years ago, Google halted China’s search experience after a set of cyber attacks related to the Chinese government against it and other US companies. Google discussed China’s search engine back about seven years ago, but the project was investigated following protests by some worried employees for Chinese supervision and censorship.
Google has also stopped selling cloud technologies directly in China, as local rules can threaten the privacy and security guarantees it provides to customers in other markets. Other Google services, such as YouTube, are blocked by Chinese Internet regulators.
China has allowed domestic companies to buy advertising via Google so that they can market customers abroad. But the revenue from these transactions is relatively low, and China did not even mention Alphabet’s annual financial report last year. This is contrary to the meta, which puts China among its biggest markets in terms of position, and last year said that China -based advertisers make up 10 % of their annual income.
