Obama Plays Good Cop to Google's Bad Cop with China

President Obama received the new Chinese ambassador to the US, Zhang Yesui, with more than the customary platitudes promising a beneficial relationship between two countries. After all, the US has essentially been pissing China off recently.

Google's much-ballyhooed strikes over internet freedom and censorship, though they lacked formal participation from the US government, were still huge symbolic strikes against a Chinese regime more concerned with controlling its citizens than allowing...