Chinese government defends country from Google’s culture, values and ideas

As it became known Sunday, China's state media accused Google of pushing a political agenda by "groundlessly accusing the Chinese government" of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas.

The state news agency was also seeking to defend the government's Internet censorship, which Google has cited as one reason company may quit China.

"Regrettably, Google's recent behaviors show that the company not just aims at expanding business in China, but is playing an active role in exporting culture, value and ideas”, it says. "It is unfair for Google to impose its own value and yardsticks on Internet regulation to China, which has its own time-honored tradition, culture and value."

China Business News assumed Friday that Google may make an announcement as early as Monday on whether it will pull out of China.

China requires Internet operators to block words and images the ruling Communist Party deems unacceptable, including those involving politically sensitive topics. Beijing has also entirely blocked internationally popular websites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

China's Internet development would prosper without Google, while the company would be the "biggest loser’, according to the news agency.

Despite Google keeps its world leadership positions, search engine operates at a distant second place to Baidu which has benefitted from the dispute.

Baidu's shares have soared by more than 44% since Google's announcement that it could pull out of China, while Google's stock has fallen roughly by 6.3%.