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Here is an article I recommend : Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem)
It has 10 pages of simple and well-writen explanations of the situation there. You don’t have to agree with the fact that “Google won’t get much profit out of it, if at all”, but I think there is a point in what the journalist (Clive Thompson) is saying, that Google isn’t the worst there, by far, and that they are trying their best to keep it at the limit.

“China operates the most extensive, technologically sophisticated, and broad-reaching system of Internet filtering in the world. The implications of this distorted on-line information environment for China’s users are profound, and disturbing.” (see opennetinitiative)
Now I wonder. There is a lot of internet hackers around the world, who are up to no good ;o) hey guys, and what if you were doing something useful for once, like crashing down the “Great Firewall of China” ? It might need more than one guy, perhaps more than one ‘T34M’, but that team would just become so famous and respected, that they would not need to crack sites for money anymore. And it’s probably the best challenge on the internet so far. I believe that the Pentagone network is a piece of junk compare to it (how many times has it been entered already ?), so who’s up for it ?