This is interesting because Google was started by the US Government and essentially a search engine is a data mining tool, which means every single piece of data being collected by China on their populace would also be being collected by an arm of the US Government. Is this an agreement between governments to settle China stealing all of our (US populace) information? Sure seems to be, after all, we are just their (elite) food.
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/