Google is showing some spine in standing up to China, although, to hear the  Chinese tell it, a home-grown company was already beating the Mountain View, CA-based search-engine firm at its own game in China. We wish Google well, since the Chinese have been playing hardball lately with the kind of troublemakers who value human rights more than, not merely business, but their own lives. Over the protests of the U.S. and the rest of the free world, China made a show of sentencing dissident writer Liu Xiaobo to 11 years of hard labor. We wouldn’t put it past them to plot murder against nettlesome Google developers working in China, since a show trial could easily backfire. That’s how China’s Russian » Read the full article