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Google is walking a file line with maintaining service in China since disputes over political censorship have strained their dialogue with the country's government.

A blog post today by Google reports that, although a simple redirect from the Google.cn homepage to Google.com.hk has worked well for most of the Chinese speaking userbase of the site, the Chinese government is none to pleased with the unfiltered results, and as a result may revoke Google's license to operate in the country.

Google launched a new site today that provides a summary of government requests from around the world. The current data reveals that they received more than 10,000 requests for data from various governments between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

Google notes that the vast majority of requests for private user data are valid.