Google's a business and its business is not political reform. It's up to the people of China to solve their problems and part of that is knowledge of what goes on in the outside world. The Chinese government is foolish to think that hiding what they do within their borders from their own people is going to halt progress in this area.
Naturally I would prefer that Google
didn't censor but at least they are stating that the topic is censored rather than just silently filtering the results (as Microsoft and Yahoo do). Also, Yahoo turned the contents of certain emails over to the Chinese government that directly resulted in the imprisoning of a so-called "Internet Dissident" and compared to that Google are almost saintly.
Nick