China: Spat with Google won’t affect relations with U.S.

Source: CNN

Beijing, China (CNN) — There’s no reason China’s spat with Internet search giant Google should hurt relations with the United States, China’s foreign ministry said Tuesday.

A day earlier, Google announced that it had stopped censoring search results in China.

“The Google incident is just an individual action taken by one company. I can’t see it having any impact on Sino-U.S. relations, unless someone wants to politicize it,” foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday. “It is not the image of China that has been undermined, rather it is that of Google.”