Much has been written recently about censorship in China and how US corporations doing business there should respond. First there was the uproar about Google, Yahoo, and others cooperating with the Chinese government by handing over data and selling systems to restrict information on the Internet in China. Tom Lantos, the senior Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, chastised the companies for abetting the Chinese government's efforts to repress free speech.
Then there was the furor over China's Communist Party shutting down Freezing Point, a weekly section of the China Youth Daily, for distributing a document that purportedly attacked the socialist system and criticized history textbooks used in Chinese schools.
Critics suggest that these episodes were just the latest examples of why US corporations should stop doing business in China. Pulling out of the country, they say, is the only way to pressure the regime to allow unfettered access to information.
I'd like to offer a brief perspective on these events as a PR pro in Beijing who works for a global firm and believes it would be a mistake for companies to leave China.
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