'Two-faced' Google, in no position to lecture China on freedoms, says Xinhua
State news agency says 'accomplice' to US spy agencies should not lecture on freedoms
Stay out of China if you want, was Xinhua's message to "two-faced" Google yesterday.
Responding to comments made by the internet giant's chairman Eric Schmidt in Hong Kong earlier this week that the company was in no hurry to return to the mainland unless censorship relaxes, an editorial by the state-run news agency said Google was in no position morally to make such demands.
The editorial accused the Mount View, California, company of collaborating with the US government in spying on users' data, citing recent media reports.
A Google spokeswoman in Hong Kong said the company had no comment on Xinhua's commentary.
The technology firm relocated its Chinese-language search services to Hong Kong from the mainland in 2010 after failed attempts to fight mainland regulations requiring it to censor search results.
"China's censorship regime has gotten significantly worse since we left, so something would have to change before we come back," Schmidt told on Sunday.
