World | WikiLeaks Google's China Trouble: Politician Googled Himself Propaganda official became angry after seeing 'critical results' By John Johnson Posted Dec 4, 2010 3:36 PM CST Copied In this March 25, 2010, file photo, a Chinese flag blows in the air below the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File) Much of Google's trouble with China has to do with a thin-skinned senior politician who Googled himself and discovered, to his horror, that people weren't writing nice things about him. Both the New York Times and the Guardian lead their WikiLeaks coverage with the anecdote about Li Changhun, the country's top propaganda official, who then ratcheted up the pressure on Google to comply with censorship rules. The company eventually pulled out of the country after its servers got hacked. Read These Next Kristi Noem won't like this Wall Street Journal exposé. Au pair struck a deal to walk free in murder case. She got 10 years. Jeanine Pirro is suing her own hometown after she fell in the street. Trump grants wave of pardons to ex-NFL players. Report an error