GOOGLE’S retreat from China, where US executives say the business climate is becoming less welcoming, may hasten moves by foreign companies to look beyond the world’s fastest-growing major economy for expansion in Asia. Google rerouted its Chinese website and yesterday began directing traffic to Hong Kong, fulfilling a pledge to stop censoring searches as required [...]

“There was no discussion concerning any change in how or from where Dell will source component parts for the computers it manufactures in Asia,” Minari Shah, a Dell spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement on Thursday.