American companies like Google aren’t exactly popular in countries like China where they are pretty strict about the information coming in and going out of the country. We suppose their concerns were only amplified with the Snowden leaks which suggested that tech companies might have had a hand, knowingly or unknowingly, with the spying activities conducted by the NSA. In fact recently the Chinese state media has called for the punishment of companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, for allegedly taking part in the PRISM scandal which was pretty much the height and focus on the Snowden leaks.
