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Google's announcement is basically psychological warfare and is unlikely to be implemented, because Google would be the loser, as well as Chinese internet users.
Google, he says, doesn't think of itself as a media outlet, but as a search engine, and it believes that its search results are rendered purely by an algorithm and so shouldn't be filtered, as in the US. But because of the publicity about China's anti-pornography campaign, Google couldn't handle the situation and had to change its strategy in China.
He continues that regarding the recent copyright lawsuit with the Writer's Society, Google also didn't understand the position of the writers very well. Reaction and impact in China are things that Google finds hard to understand.
Long says Chinese people look at things from different angles and will understand the views of different groups. But for Americans, it is difficult to understand.
Corruption at local government level is all too common in China.
Cases of officials accepting bribes and using public funds for themselves and their families are widespread. It's relatively unusual though for successful action to be taken is such cases.
However in a rare victory for community action, one group’s decade long struggle against local government has finally ended in victory.
As BON's Andrew Livingstone reports it's been a long hard battle.
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