The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that it opens an investigation into Google in response to 10 % tariffs imposed on Chinese import by US President Donald Trump. A few minutes after the entry into force of the Tariffs of the Chinese state administration in the field of market regulations, she stated that she was probing the American technological giant for the potential violation of this domestic anti-monopolistic law.
The Chinese government could strategically decide on Google because it has restricted activity in this country, ensuring that the hit for the American technological giant will be relatively minimal. This movement gives China a lot of space for escalation if the Trump administration announces further tariffs or other commercial resources. Google refused to comment.
China also announced that they set more restrictions on the sale of some critical minerals, such as Wolframs and striking additional tariffs for agricultural equipment, pickup trucks, flowing natural gas, coal and other goods from the USA. While the US is not dependent on China for all affected minerals, this country controls most of the world tungsten resources, which is used in bulbs, semiconductors and ammunition.
“China’s position is strong and consistent. Trade and tariff wars have no winners, “said the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement Sunday shortly after the tariffs are announced. “This movement cannot solve the US problems at home, and more importantly, it does not benefit any of the parties, let alone the world.”
China has maintained Google in the crosshairs during the ongoing trade war from the USA over the past few years. In 2020, apparently the government Opening considered According to Reuters, antitrust investigation regarding Google Android. The deliberations took place on the complaint of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, whose goal was Trump during his first term.
Due to the sanctions in the USA, Huawei is not able to exploit American software, such as Google Mobile Services, a package of tools commonly used in the smartphone industry. Restrictions forced the company to develop their own operating system called Harmony OS.
But most smartphones It still runs all over the world On the Android, which caused competitive research in many countries, some of which led to changes in the concession parlor designed to provide more elections and lower fees designed to provide consumers and creators. A few in China Creators of smartphones Continue relying on the Open Source Android version.
In December last year, the Chinese authorities also opened an anti-monopolistic study in the NVIDIA case, the Chips manufacturer, whose GPUs play a key role in the development of generative artificial intelligence and became an critical source of trade between the USA and China. The advertisement took place shortly after the Biden administration further tightened China’s access to high -class semiconductors.
Google also stopped directly selling cloud technologies in China, because local regulations may threaten to ensure privacy and security, which it offers to customers in other markets. Other Google services, such as YouTube, are blocked by Chinese online regulators.
China allowed domestic companies to buy advertising via Google so that they could sell customers abroad. But the revenues from these transactions are relatively tiny, and China did not even mention the dominant company of Alphabet Annual financial report last year. It stands unlike the finish, which lists China among their largest markets in terms of the location of the advertiser and said that advertisers from China last year constitute 10 percent of annual revenues.