Questions follow Google exit

Internet search giant's Chinese partner has remained silent during and after the dispute with the government. Why?

It's been months since the intense dispute between Google and Chinese government came to an end, with the Internet search giant redirecting its traffic from Beijing to Hong Kong, still there are many questions left unanswered, namely has Google really left and why was its partner in China so silent during the quarrel?

It's been widely publicized that a Jan 12 statement by David Drummond, Google senior vice president and chief legal official, started it all. In the statement, he claimed that the Internet giant, based in the Silicon Valley in California, had been heavily attacked by hackers on the mainland and was weighing whether to jump ship from Beijing.