The spat between Google and China has been going on for many months now.  Google had accused the Chinese authorities of subjecting the search engine to cyber attacks and censorship in the country.

According to latest reports, Google has made an announcement stating that it will automatically stop redirecting Chinese users to their Hong Kong site as they have submitted an application for renewal of license to the Chinese authorities.

Google has to renew its Internet Content Provider license renewed so that it can continue to provide information to 404 million users from China which is the worlds largest online population.

According to a latest Blog from David Drummond, who is the legal chief officer with Google the Chinese authorities have found Google’s behavior unacceptable and therefore the redirect will have to be halted until they can get their license renewed.

According to the blog, the Chinese government officials stated that if Google continues to redirect users to their Hong Kong site, their license would not be renewed.

Therefore over the next few days Google would halt the redirect entirely and the users would be directed to a new landing page. The Search engine giant had resubmitted its license for renewal with the Chinese authorities in lieu of a new approach.

[Source: Business news]