1. Can Google afford not to do business in China?

 
Google is a multinational company that specializes in internet services
and product, which includes advertising technologies, search engines, software
and hardware. As the time goes by, globalization has a larger impact in the
business economy, it may be deepening the relationship among countries, or
an elimination of barriers to trade, communication and cultural exchange.
As per the case of Google doing business in China, China is important
since it is big and growing fast, and google can still do business in China.
Chinese government are fearing that due to unlimited search engines, it might
corrupt their nation’s youth minds. As we all know, google is an unlimited
search engine, that they can uncover any issues in just one click that can
change everything, and might poison the minds of everyone.
The Chinese government and google might still do an agreement that
google will remove any websites disapproved of by them, but the government
must still agree with what the terms and condition that the google propose, or
they meet half way of what they intended to implement. Google can still apply
their motto “Don’t be evil”, they can censor information that might threat their
security, damaging their nation’s glory, disturbing social rights, and infringing on
other’s legitimate rights, but they must not alter information just to cover up all
the things that might affect their youth’s mind.
As a student, I believe that developing an institution or a company that
support the public welfare, the international trade and as well as the
government policies will give growth to the business economies. A multinational
company shouldn’t be focus on only one country, they should also take into
consideration on how they globally approach to market and production.

2. Which stakeholders would be affected by Google's managers' possible decision to shut

down its China operations? How would they be affected?
Before the shut down there was a sudden decline of stocks of google in
the market in the US, because they remove the websites which the Chinese
Government disapproves. There are protesters on the Google’s headquarters
that might be the owner of the website that they remove on the google engines,
because they believed that google is a trustworthy company and is interested in
the publics welfare.
Shutting down Google’s operation in China might affect their stakeholders
that invest mainly for their company in China. Those stakeholders might not get a
return on their investment of what they’ve expected since there was a sudden
shut down. Expanding a business globally might affect the culture of the
company on the other country. The Google lacks on taking into consideration
those who are on the other side of the world, since they focus mainly on having a
company in China to have an access to a very large market and to conduct a
market research and learn more about their market.

3. Should Google's managers be surprised by China's predicament?

 Google are aware that the Chinese government are filtering each
Chinese ISP to restrict contents that might corrupt their youth’s mind. In 2010,
Google decided that they will no longer censor search results on its Chinese
service. By announcing that, Google’s management are aware on how will the
Chinese government might react. They already foresee and they are ready for
all of the changes that will going to happen after their announcement.
After what happened in China, Google should reassess the laws and
regulation, the culture and the market of the country that they will going to
engage with, to avoid any miscommunications, to adjust their societal point of
view, and to avoid having conflict with the country.