I hope that Google and the Chinese government reach some sort of
deal, and Google does not leave, because that would hurt many Chinese
people, especially People We Like, such as scientists. Many of them
access the U.S. copy of LENR-CANR.org via Google.cn. A much smaller
number use the Chinese government's search tool baidu.com.
Dealing with dictatorships is tricky. You want to help the people in
the country and also respect their laws without too many compromises
with the government. I think engagement is good. Our trade, contacts
and exchanges with Russia during the cold war helped both sides, in
my opinion. I wish we were more open with Cuba.
I just tested baidu.com with the word "cold fusion" in Chinese, and a
variety of other search terms such as LENR. It finds the U.S. version
of LENR-CANR.org, New Energy Times and so on, but not the mirror copy
of LENR-CANR at Tsinghua U.
(I can read Chinese to some extent, especially words such as fusion,
neutron, heat and so on. They are more or less the same as in
Japanese. I can also make out computer related terms, so I can tell
what kind of article the search came up with, and whether it is the
programming language ColdFusion or my kind.)
Baidu.com also has an on-line encyclopedia. Here is their article
about cold fusion, translated by Google:
<http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://baike.baidu.com/view/1391655.htm%3Ffr%3Dala0_1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8>http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://baike.baidu.com/view/1391655.htm%3Ffr%3Dala0_1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
It is interesting. Pam Boss somehow came out "Pameilamo Hibbs."
- Jed
