Abstract:
The economic relation between the United States and China has given China an
opportunity to open its market by joining the WTO. In attempting to modernize,
China views Internet to be controlled by regulating various Internet censorship
policies and techniques to restrict information through the Internet, which was
known as the "Great Firewall of China" in filtering contents that could harm the
state's cyber security. While on the other hand, U.S. sees the Internet as an open,
global space for freedom of expression and made Internet freedom as its agenda
to be promoted. Therefore, Google at this point as the U.S. based company
decided to comply with Chinese Internet censorship regulations in order to
provide free Internet information towards Chinese citizens. In this thesis, the
researcher attempts to analyze the effects of Internet censorship policy towards
foreign company like Google that also considered affecting the relations between
U.S. and China. The researcher uses Internet research and reviewing reports,
articles and journals as the instruments in collecting and completing the data and
information. The researcher viewed the data from 2000 until 2010 based on
Google's presence in China until its withdrawal from Chinese Mainland to Hong
Kong. The result of this thesis is expected to give a better understanding about the
effects of two countries with different perspectives to have relations through the
foreign company by implementing China's censorship policy on Google's
business in order to support the national interests of the U.S.
