Meanwhile, in the latest batch of leaked documents, US officials say that China’s Politburo Standing Committee – the highest Communist Party organ - directed attacks on Google after a senior member found a critical article while googling his name.
The New York Times named the politician as propaganda chief Li Changchun, although this does not appear in the WikiLeaks cable.
A “well-placed contact” told the US Beijing embassy that operations against Google were “100% political.” Another source believed that a senior figure was working closely with Google’s rival Baidu.
The heavy attacks led Google to announce its departure from the mainland China market early this year.
Google believed it was being harassed by the Chinese government for still allowing a link from google.cn to the uncensored google.com, citing a series of incidents in which its sites were blocked.
Google also had turned down a Chinese government request to adjust the resolution on Google Earth satellite images, which authorities had claimed presented a security threat.
Meanwhile, PayPal said it would not support payments to WikiLeaks.org because it had violated its acceptable use policy, Bloomberg reported.
The policy did not allow “activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,” Paypal said.
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