On Saturday, the Financial Times reported that the world’s leading search engine, Google is now “99.9%” sure to shut its Chinese search engine after a long battle with China over censorship.

Google has decided to remain silent on this issue and refused to give any details on discussion with the Chinese Government.

“We can’t confirm that story”, said a Google Spokeswoman.

The Financial Times said in a report that Google has made elaborate plans for closing down its Chinese search engine.

Though the decision has been taken, this will take some time to get accomplished.

The company will work to defend local employees from retaliation by authorities.

In January, Google had shocked everyone when it declared to withdraw its services from China if it could not offer an unfiltered Chinese search engine. Cyber attacks originating from China on Google, and around 30 other firms, were the reason for this threat.

Li Yizhong, China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said, “If you don’t respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and the consequences will be on you”.