After months of quiet wrangling with Beijing

China's Foreign Ministry would not comment directly about the report. "Generally Rosetta Stone Software speaking, any companies operating abroad should obey the laws and regulations of the host country," said the ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.RUN-INS CONTINUEThe report appeared after Google again clashed with the Chinese government over Internet censorship.Earlier this month, Google said any difficulty that users in China may have faced opening its email service were likely the result of government blocks.China's ruling Communist Party has intensified censorship in recent months, fearing that calls for protests inspired by anti-authoritarian uprisings across the Middle East and north Africa could gather momentum.Google's serious run-ins with the Chinese government began in January 2010, when the company said it was no longer willing to censor search results in the country. Previously, the company included a disclaimer on its China service that searches may not be complete because of local laws.Searches for terms deemed sensitive by Chinese censors are routinely blocked. Chinese search engines such as that offered by Baidu already voluntarily filter Rosetta Stone languages searches.Google also said it had uncovered sophisticated China-based attacks on human rights activists using its Gmail service around the world. The censorship and hacking dispute became a diplomatic sore point in Sino-U.S. relations.After months of quiet wrangling with Beijing, Google altered its main Chinese-language search page so that inquiries are redirected to a site in Hong Kong.That means Google searches from within China are still censored by the government's "Great Wall" of Internet filters, but the company no longer plays a direct role in that censorship. Previously, the companyincluded a disclaimer on its China service that searches may notbe complete because of local laws. Searches for terms deemed sensitive by Chinese censors areroutinely blocked. Chinese search engines such as that offeredby Baidu already voluntarily filter searches. Google also said it had uncovered sophisticated China-basedattacks on human rights activists using its Gmail service aroundthe world. The censorship and hacking dispute became adiplomatic sore point in Sino-U.S. relations. After months of quiet wrangling with Beijing, Google alteredits main Chinese-language search page so that inquiries areredirected to a site in Hong Kong. That means Google searches from within China are stillcensored by the Rosetta Stone language software government's "Great Wall" of Internet filters,but the company no longer plays a direct role in thatcensorship.

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