China launches antitrust probe into Google, labels 2 other firms unreliable

China Tuesday announced a flurry of retaliatory measures against the US, including tariffs on imports of products such as coal, liquefied natural gas products and crude oil, as well as an antitrust probe into Google. It also placed two other US firms on an unreliable entity list that could bar them from investing in China.

China and Google have had a long and entangled relationship going back to the early 2000s.

Here’s a look at Google’s history in China and what the antitrust probe means for the company: