https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/google-v-china-the-chinese-government-reacts

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-china-killed-cia-sources-hobbled-us-spying-from-2010-to-2012-nyt-2017-5

Archive these somebody. Google was having issues with china around the same time. Yahoo hand a hand in it too.

No coincidences.