At foremost, the fight between China and Google over the free pour of information appeared more like a contest of beast strength.

However, it even clearer that the game is more like a Chinese exercise that is known as ‘pushing hands’. The aim remains that the opponent falls over, but a better way to deal with it is to let him drop his balance.

Yesterday came the news that Beijing has renewed Google's license to operate in China. That depicts that Beijing as well has it on its mind that throwing Google out completely would only expose its censorship command to higher pressure that would not come from anywhere else but its own people, finding means around it as well as international disapproval.

Notably, Google in January declared it would discontinue self-censoring search results on its China site.

However, it also desired to keep doing trade in China and so no way it could let the whole thing just pass with the blowing wind and find a way to avoid breaking Chinese law.

In March, the corporation started redirecting users from the google. cn page to its Hong Kong site, google. com. hk, which was not censored.

To be clear, Chinese users still have not been offered uncensored search results.