# Professor Navin Manglani discusses Google's scrapped plans for a censored search engine in China

1 Faculty News July 25, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2019/07/25/google-has-ended-its-plans-for-a-censored-chinese-search-engine-and-may-never-return/#48f8de6b88e4) -- "'The censorship required for Google and other tech companies make China a tricky market,' said [Navin Manglani](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/navin-manglani), professor of technology for NYU Stern School of Business. 'Furthermore, Chinese competitors often either implicit government support, through the government imposing significant regulations for non-Chinese companies, or explicit government support, through grants or funding. The government is quite leery of foreign companies achieving prominence in China.'"

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