TechCrunch released an earth-shattering kaboom of an article concerning Google's operations in China. I have verified a post was made on Google's blog (see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html).

Executive summary: Google is fed up with the behavior of Chinese censorship regulations, and potentially government-approved attacks on Google's infrastructure to compromise accounts belonging to civil-rights activists have resulted in Google's decision to tell China to go eff-off, they're going to uncensor everything if possible under their laws, and if not, China can kiss Google's sorry ass goodbye (meaning, they'll close down the google.cn website, all of the branch offices in China, et. al.).

This is quite a significant development, but I'm shocked it took this long to happen. Everyone on the planet was informing Google, "Hey, you're going to get raked if you do this," back in 2006 and 2007. It looks like they finally got the message. Good on you, Google!