Google has finally made its stance clear on the thus far dilly-dally decision to shutter its operations in China after the January cyberattacks – the company disclosed on Monday that it would stop censoring search results in China; and readdress its Chinese home page traffic to its un filtered Hong Kong site.

As a result of Google’s most recent move pertaining to Chinese operations, all the traffic on Google. cn would henceforth be redirected to Google. com. hk and its Hong Kong-based servers.

The Google decision to discontinue its operations in China – a move that has come after a deadlock was reached in the two-month-long negotiations between the company and the Chinese authorities - has reportedly “disappointed” the Obama administration.

Nonetheless, according to the information forwarded by Mike Hammer - a spokesman for the President’s National Security Council - the administration respects the decision taken by Google, largely because it was “based on what it believed was in its interest.”

Noting that Obama as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been emphasizing that the US is “committed to Internet freedom and are opposed to censorship,” Hammer said: “We have previously raised our concerns about this issue directly with the Chinese government.”

Meanwhile, justifying its decision in a blog post, Google said permitting uncensored search via Hong Kong is a “sensible solution to the challenges we’ve faced” in China.