Keep an eye out on Google’s earnings call for questions about China’s antitrust probe into the search giant. The investigation was announced on Monday night, just hours after President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
This seems to be part of China’s broader retaliation effort to Trump’s tariffs, in which it’s targeting several large U.S. companies. The search giant has a fairly limited presence in China; Google Search is blocked there, and the country makes up only 1% of its global revenue, according to Reuters.
That said, a China probe creates new legal headaches for Google, and complicates the company’s political relationship with the Trump administration.
