I think you greatly overestimate the amount of "pressure" a single company can exert on China, of all places.

I can't hardly overestimate something I didn't make an estimation of.

Oh FFS.

>Outcome A': Google avoids China altogether, keeping the pressure on Chinese authorities, which may, on the long term

You did type this, yes?

Yes. Where is the amount, extent, position, size, or value of the pressure exerted on China, that I estimated too highly?

The fact that there is any pressure whatsoever. Of all the countries in the world, China is the most able (from an economic and political standpoint) to tell a western company to take their service and shove it.

That's a very shallow view of how the non-autarkic part of the world (to which China certainly belongs) works, China's recent history and the influence of the "cocacolonization" effect. Stating it exerts no pressure whatsoever is an extraordinary claim.