(Bloomberg) – Amazon. com Inc. ‘s efforts to curry favor with the Chinese included a low-key review of President Xi Jinping’s e-book in its Chinese medium, according to a Reuters report.
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Xi’s access to Amazon. cn for “China Governance” had his scores, comments and reviews deleted and deactivated about two years ago in reaction to an edict from Beijing, according to the report. five stars maximum, according to one of the other unidentified people familiar with the incident.
The movement component of a broader crusade to ensure Amazon continues to operate in the world’s most populous country, where its cloud computing and Kindle operations can grow. watchdogs to remove safe content, basically politically sensitive content,” according to an internal briefing document cited via Reuters.
An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg News that it “complies with all applicable regulations, wherever we operate, and China is no exception. “
The delight narrated in the report mirrors that of Apple Inc. , which has increasingly complied with Beijing in recent years. Apple met 97% of Users’ device data requests from the Chinese government in 2019, up from 65% in 2014.
Reviews of Xi’s e-book of speeches and writings are blocked on Amazon’s Chinese website. A Amazon. com gained 74% of five-star reviews.
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Other U. S. companies, such as Yahoo! and Microsoft Corp. ‘s LinkedIn, by contrast, left the Chinese market this year, presenting a complicated business and legal environment in the country.
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