“Google removed its search engine service from China in 2010 and said at the time that it ‘could no longer continue censoring our results’ in the country.” Now, apparently, Google can no longer keep itself away from the massive Chinese market. NPR: Google Testing a Censored Search Engine Just for China.

+ Spiegel: China’s Xinjiang Region. A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen. (But one that will be seen in many other parts of the world before long…)