China today included the American technological giant Google after the.
The State Market Regulation Administration of China announced on Tuesday in a statement that has initiated a formal investigation into the company for “alleged violation of China’s antimonopoolio law”, without offering more details.
The measure has a symbolic character since Google’s presence in the Asian country is minimal, since the search engine has been blocked since 2010 in the face of censorship and pressures of the communist government.
Chinese users use search engines and other local applications, and other American company services such as email, translation and maps are also censored unless a private virtual virtual network (VPN) is used in English) .
The investigation also comes after Trump ordered his government to take measures to begin developing a government investment fund that, he said, could be used to, owned by the Chinese company bytedance, if they manage to find an American buyer.
China today announced tariffs from 10% to 15% to certain products from the United States from February 10 after the additional taxes of 10% imposed by Trump imposed on Chinese products.
Also, Beijing also announced new controls to key mineral exports and added two US companies, PVH Group and Illumina Inc, to the list of entities not reliable for “violating market principles, interrupting normal transactions with Chinese companies, adopting discriminatory measures against them and seriously damage their legitimate rights and interests. “
Trump delayed the tariffs that had imposed imports of Canada and Mexico for a month, but 10 % rates to Chinese imports entered into force this afternoon during Beijing. The American leader advanced yesterday that he would talk to Chinese managers in the next few days and that it was possible that there was a pause.
Beijing had promised reprisals for “signing firmly” their rights and interests, in addition to submitting a demand before the World Trade Organization (WTO) for US “illegal practices”.
In his first presidency (2017-2021), Trump has already maintained a tense relationship with Beijing by imposing several batches of rates worth 370,000 million dollars annually, to which China responded with taxes to US exports.
