Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said that the Internet giant's situation in China 'seems to be stable' following its decision two months ago to stop censoring web search results.
Schimdt, speaking at Google's annual shareholders meeting at the company's headquarters in California, said Google has 'maintained our business relationships and our engineering centres in China'.
'The situation seems to be stable,' the Google boss said in response to a question from a shareholder, although he added that it could always change.
'Should the Chinese government become upset with us, or become further upset with us, they do have the ability to change this outcome,' he said at the meeting.
'From Google's perspective we made our decision, we've implemented it, we want to continue to serve the Chinese citizens,' Schmidt said. 'We want to continue our business operations in China,' he added.
Google's relations with China have been strained since the Internet giant announced in January that it and a number of other companies had been targeted by sophisticated China-based cyberattacks.
Google last month stopped censoring web search results on its Chinese search engine and began redirecting users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong, a move which was praised by a number of shareholders at the AGM.
