BEIJING - At a time when they wanted to focus on the economy, Chinese leaders face a surprise political challenge: A possible Google pullout that could anger China's public and embolden other companies to vent grievances.
Google Inc.'s threat to shut down its China-based site Google.cn over censorship and e-mail hacking alarmed an Internet-connected public that has tolerated a gap between rapid economic and technological progress and a closed, secretive political system.
"The political outcome is that it could stir up a restive group of people, which is the younger people catalog printing and the Internet users in China who may look at access to information as a civil right," said James McGregor, a senior counselor for consulting firm APCO Worldwide Inc. .
brochure printingThat potential Internet lobby is vast. China's online population soared by nearly 30 percent last year to 384 million people, bigger than the whole U.S. population. It includes the Chinese elite of entrepreneurs and professionals who have benefited most from economic reform and usually support the ruling party.
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