China has no direct comment on Google

China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that it had no comment on Google's decision to end automatic rerouting of Chinese users to its uncensored Hong Kong search portal, in a bid to keep its China operating license.                                           

Foreign ministry spokesperson Qin Gang referred questions about Google to "relevant agencies", adding only that "Internet operators in China should abide by Chinese laws and regulations."                                           

Google said earlier this week users of its Google.cn site would have to click through to its Hong Kong site, rather than being sent there automatically, because Beijing had made clear it was unhappy with the current system and would not renew Google's operating license unless it halted the practice.