MOSCOW. (Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti political...

The reason is the rapidly unwinding "Google case" in China. It all began with the largest global search engine"s threat to leave the Chinese market after a cyber attack by some hackers on gmail, the company"s email service. Google implied the attack came from China"s special services, which tried to read dissidents" emails. Google complained to the U.S. government.

It all looked simple at the beginning. However, with time it became clear that one of the largest and most important U.S. companies had dragged the country into a very ugly tangle. What"s worse, the Chinese authorities, which at first failed to understand what was wrong at all, have eventually grasped the essence and are launching a counteroffensive. To have to fight back Chinese diplomacy is the last thing the Barack Obama Administration needs at the moment, as that diplomacy is known to be meticulous, picky and vindictive, and determined to get what it is after.

On Thursday, two Google China senior executives,

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