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Alphabet back in China (because it never left) : Google Parent Company Alphabet
Alphabet Inc. removed from its Google Play Store on Tuesday last week a mobile application that helped users find and delete apps from Chinese companies.
The app, "Remove China Apps, was developed by the Indian company OneTouch Applabs. Since the first bunch of serious security issues in the Himalayan bottom region between two countries, it has become increasingly popular in India because of an increasing anti-China sentiment.
Sameer Samat, Vice President of Android and Google Play, made the decision clear in a blog post while criticizing this move, stating that Google does not "allow an app to encourage or encourage users to remove, disable, delete, or modify apps or device settings or features except if it does not belong to a verifiable security service."
Just days before, Youtube, another subsidiary of the Alphabet, revealed that its algorithm had automatically removed certain phrases criticizing the Communist Party of China, although they were accidental.
This is not the first time that Alphabet has been examined for its actions in or in connection with China. In fact Google 's famous "exit from China" came in about 2010 when they saintly said they would no longer censor the results of its search, which only it made in addition to the resignation of China's president, Kai-fu Lee (after years of protest from staff and human rights activists).
However, Alphabet and its associated businesses continue to invest in collaborations and ventures on the world's largest internet sector, given the fact that media interest is diminished in all these years.
Verily, in a moonshot alphabet project in China , the company races to complete Project Baseline, an ambitious new research project that focuses on COVID-19 antibody testing. This research project has a number of new jobs. (It should be noted that many of these job openings were on-site in China, prior to COVID-19, so they are not just involved in solving the current crisis).
Verily, this is just one of the few alphabet companies currently operating in China with more than 300 employees in China. One of these is Google itself.
Alphabet also regularly invests in Chinese businesses, outside direct operations, through the CapitalG fund, the private-equity fund and the venture capital fund of Google Ventures.
