This week has seen a flurry of developments about Google planning to return to the Chinese market with an AI-powered news app , followed by a self-censoring Search service . The company’s ambitions also reportedly extend to bringing G Suite to China via partnerships with local cloud companies. According to Bloomberg , Google has been in discussion with Tencent and two other Chinese cloud hosting providers since early 2018. Those rented servers and compute power would be used by Google to offer Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and more to local users in the country. Chinese laws dictate that all customer cloud data be geographically located in the country. Rather than build out its own data centers, Google would reportedly adopt a partnership model to run the apps and host Chinese user data. A local partnership with the likes of Tencent or Inspur would help Google return to the country, and provides high-profile allies for the company to win government approval. Ea...