The plot thickens in China/Google situation.  Forbes has the latest. 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently got involved in the ongoing standoff between Google and the Chinese government. Beijing is less than pleased.

On Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu had harsh words for Clinton following a speech she gave in Washington on Thursday which cited China as one of the countries where there has been "a spike in threats to the free flow of information" over the past year. (See “Google’s Secretary Of State.”

Clinton’s remarks were in response to an ongoing standoff between Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and the Chinese government over cyber-security and Internet censorship. Earlier this month Google threatened to shut its local site, Google.cn, over security concerns. Cyber-security alarm escalated after Chinese search engine and Google rival Baidu ( BIDU - news - people ) was hijacked for about four hours by a hacker group called "Iranian Cyber Army." Separately, Google accused someone in China of breaking into Gmail accounts used by Chinese human rights activists. (See “Baidu Hijacked By Cyber Army and ”Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks.”

Google now hopes to reach an agreement with the Chinese government on how it can "operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all," according to a statement made earlier this month by David C. Drummond, Google senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer. (See “Baidu Rises On Google Concern.”)

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