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By SHARON LaFRANIERE

Published: January 16, 2010

BEIJING — At the elite Tsinghua University Amoxil cod online orders here, some students were joking Friday that purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery they had better download all the Internet information they wanted now in case Google left the country buy cheap generic valtrex.

But to many of the young, well-educated Chinese who are Google where to buy generic finasteride online without a prescription’s loyal users here, the company’s threat to leave buy Crestor no prescriptions is in fact no laughing matter. Interviews in Beijing’s downtown and purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery university district indicated that many viewed the possible loss of Google’s maps, translation service, sketching software, access to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery scholarly papers and search function with real distress.

“How am I going to live without Google?” asked Wang Yuanyuan, a purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery 29-year-old businessman, as he left a convenience store in Beijing’s business district.

China order Amoxil usa cod’s Communist rulers have purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery long tried to balance their desire for a thriving Internet and purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery the economic growth it promotes with their demands for political control. The alarm over Google among Beijing’s younger, better educated and more Internet savvy citizens — China’s future elite — shows how wobbly that balancing act can be.

By publicly challenging China’s censorship, Google has stirred up the debate over the government’s claim that purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery constraints on free speech are crucial to political stability and purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery the prosperity that has accompanied it. Even if it is purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery unlikely to pose any immediate threat to the Communist Party, Google’s move has clearly discomfited the government, Chinese analysts say.

“The average age of Chinese netizens is still very young,” said Hu Yong, a journalism professor at Peking University. “This is a matter of the future and whether the government’s Internet policy wants to fight with the future.

“If this purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery process goes on, more and more people are going to realize that purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery their freedom of information is being infringed upon, and this could bring changes down the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery line,” he said.

Google may rank a distant second to the Baidu search engine, but its estimated 80 million users are purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery comparatively better educated and wealthier. Surveys show that roughly two-thirds are purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery college educated. A Beijing technology consultant, Kaiser Kuo, describes them as “a potentially very noisy constituency.”

An Internet expert who purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery insisted on anonymity for fear of repercussions from the government said: “They have purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery bought into the bargain of get rich, have a good job, life gets better, just don’t mess with the Communist Party.”

If Google leaves, he said, “they may start asking, ‘What’s wrong with my country that it doesn’t let me do this?’ ”

“It is not like they are going to take to the streets,” he added. “But it purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery further erodes the legitimacy of what the Communist Party is doing. This is purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery a group the party doesn’t want to lose any more than it already has.”

On the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery other hand, the Chinese government managed to cut off nearly all Internet access to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery an entire region of 19 million people for half a year without encountering any significant political resistance. The blackout, imposed in the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery western Xinjiang region after deadly riots in July, is only now being gingerly lifted.

Other Internet users argue that Google must respect the Chinese government’s policies if it wants to do business here.

“I think government control of this is quite reasonable,” said Liu Qiang, 29, a purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery Tsinghua University mechanical engineer graduate student. “Our party needs to stabilize its governance.”

Some predict that any inconvenience caused by Google’s exit will be short-lived. “The Internet is really big,” said Wang Quiya, a 27-year-old worker in Beijing’s financial district. “Something will take its place, right?”

The government’s recent efforts to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery tighten Internet controls have already cost some Chinese some pleasures. In the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery name of rooting out pornography and piracy, Chinese authorities have shut down hundreds of Web sites offering films, music downloads, video games and purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery other forms of entertainment since November.

Li An, a purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery Tsinghua University senior with wide eyes and thick black braids, said she used to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery download episodes of “Desperate Housewives” and “Grey’s Anatomy” from sites run by BT China that are now closed. “I love American television series!” she said with frustration during a purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery pause from studying Japanese at a university fast-food restaurant on Friday.

The loss of Google would hit her much harder, she said, because she relies on Google Scholar to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery download academic papers for her classes in polymer science. “For me, this is terrible,” Ms. Li said. Some students contend that purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery even after Google pulls out, Internet space will continue to purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery shrink. Until now, Google has shielded Baidu by manning the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery front line in the censorship battle, said one 20-year-old computer science major at Tsinghua.

“Without Google, Baidu will be very easy to manipulate,” he said. “I don’t want to see this trend.”

A 21-year old civil engineering student predicted a purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery strong reaction against the government. “If Google really leaves, people will feel the purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery government has gone too far,” he insisted over lunch in the university cafe.

But asked whether that purchase Xenical online with overnight delivery reaction would influence the government to soften its policies, he concentrated on his French fries. “I really don’t know,” he said.

Xiyun Yang, Li Bibo and Nancy Zhao contributed research.