Google initially ask for U.S. government help in it protest to China hacking. This was denied. Other U.S. companies who were victims of the hacking also declined to stand up. After Google’s decision to go it alone and stand up to China, the U.S. State Department declined to comment saying it would wait to see how China responded.
Lo and behold, this morning Obama and Clinton decide to issue a formal demarche expressing U.S. concern about the incident. See Bloomberg report.
Could it be that our post partisan president sees political capital in finally getting on the right side of freedom? He certainly didn’t have any great independent motivation before. Perhaps his philosophy doesn’t include First Amendment concepts, but, without a doubt, it does relish political applause!
Tom Motherway