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Google sure is a cancer, but you are not putting it in the context. They literally only provide two major services in Mainland China:

ads, which basically allow Chinese business to put ads on Google Ads and Google AdMob
developer services like GoLang and Tensorflow, but their main business in China right now is Android licensing for Chinese Mobilephone brands for their international versions.

So,

For ads, Google AdMob and Google Ads are not accessible in China;
for dev services, all Android phone in China right now are basically based on AOSP, because in China Google Framework is not useable.

From this standpoint, there is no visible reason for an antitrust probe in China.

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Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Virtually any smartphone manufacturer in China apart from Huawei and Apple pay licensing fees to Google. Sounds very monopoly when tens of manufacturers pay licensing fees to the same company. Right or wrong motivation there’s a compelling case unless one hits the great mental firewall of “China bad”.

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- callmepk@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Okay, you are possibly right here. After digging into China’s law, they do include laws that allows investigations into companies that is monopoly overseas as long as the company has business in China.
  
  But my end point still stands; this is still a very specific time to start the investigation, Android dominance is definitely a part of cause, but in the end it is just a part of political drama between two asshole governments that end up not benefiting both county’s people
  
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  - Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama
    
    It’s not political drama, they were happy to look the other way when there was a quid pro quo. There isn’t one anymore so they enforce their own laws. It’s 2025 not 1825, we’re not right just because we speak English.
    
    The US was also happy to look the other way when Uyghur slaves were manufacturing components for Apple. It’s just normal geopolitics.
    
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