I assume that anyone with even a remote interest in business and the global world at large has been loosely monitoring the recent WWF pissing match between the Chinese CCP government and US firm Google.

See/read the below January 30, 2010 Wall Street Journal article on this topic (be sure to click on the “Comments” link at the top of the article and peruse some of the comments that were posted in response to this article):

Battling the Information Barbarians: China Often Views the Ideas of Foreigners, from Missionaries in the 17th Century to 21st-Century Internet Entrepreneurs, as Subversive Imports.  The Tumultuous History Behind the Clash with Google.

Ring a bell from your admission essay question when you applied to the program?

Were you aware of this historical tension between China and the West?

See also/read this nice blog post from David Wolf of the always insightful Silicon Hutong blog, based in Beijing, Why Global Internet Companies Fail in China and his really, really good Ad Age article cited therein, The Internet Does Not Rise Above Nations and Cultures.

Books will be written on this dispute and much dust still needs to settle before any sane writer takes on this subject and starts to write these chapters, but what are your early thoughts on this dispute for now?  Did Google to the right thing?  Did it take the right approach?  Why did it do what it did?  How do you predict this will all end?