At Least Beijing Didn't Threaten to "Smash" Google's Head, But There's Still Time

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10:27 AM, Oct 19, 2005 • By DANIEL MCKIVERGAN

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"China has reacted angrily to a decision by the internet search engine Google to stop calling Taiwan a Chinese province," reports the BBC.

Of course, the Google folks got off easy. In 1997, the Danish government sponsored a United Nations resolution calling attention to the poor human rights record of Beijing. The Chinese foreign ministry countered, the Washington Post reported, by warning that

"relations with Denmark would be 'severely damaged in the political or economic and trade areas.' In case that was too subtle, China added that the human rights resolution would 'become a rock that smashes on the Danish government's head.'"

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