In a tweet, Trump said that Google recently claimed it wanted to build a large factory in Finland entirely because U.S. permitting and approval procedures are too cumbersome, adding that he was very unhappy and hoped Google would change its mind.
On August 18, 2026, Nikkei Asia reported that Google has informed its supply chain manufacturers of plans to pull the entire capacity for hardware such as Pixel smartphones out of China starting in 2027, shifting it fully to Vietnam and India.
At the end of May 2014, all Google websites became inaccessible in China and have never been unblocked since. Foreign websites shifted from a blacklist system to a de facto whitelist system.
After Operation Aurora and multiple clashes and war of words with the Chinese government over search result filtering, Google officially announced its withdrawal from the Chinese mainland market.
In mid-December 2009, Google reported a hacker attack from China, saying the attackers attempted to steal Google's internal information and the Gmail accounts of dissidents. The operation was later called Operation Aurora, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied it.
In April 2009, China demanded that Google remove from the google.cn homepage the link leading to google.com, but the request was refused; on June 18, the Internet Society of China issued a notice condemning Google for disseminating obscene, pornographic and vulgar information, while CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report criticized it in succession, and Google was temporarily cut off.
On January 26, 2006 (January 25 US time), Google launched the Chinese version of its search engine Google.cn, filtering search results in accordance with the rules of the Chinese authorities, and noted in the footer that some results were not displayed.
Around January 25, 2006, Google launched a specially tailored google.cn with filtering. Google said that completely denying search to one fifth of the world's population would be a more serious violation of its mission.
On August 29, 2002, Google was blocked in China for two weeks, regarded as the first major test of Great Firewall technology.