China Unicom and Google's clean break up

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    Foreign companies have little say when negotiating contracts with top state-owned enterprises

    Although China Unicom ended its partnership with Google last week, there was no contractual breach, said counsel.

    Last Thursday, on March 24 China Unicom announced it was removing the Google search function from all its mobile phones. Lu Yimin, president of China Unicom told the Financial Times, “We are willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law…we don't have any cooperation with Google currently.”

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