How can Google get away with this? The "Landing page" is basically just an image that you can click on that redirects you to google.com.hk. So, in effect, the only change made is that you must _click_ on the page to go to google.com.hk instead of the automatic redirect. Big LOL. I do hope they get away with this. Whoever thought of this audacious (and simplistic) move is a genius.
Perhaps they don't care that much to make large gestures to get their license renewed. Seems like they've made the minimum gesture possible without comprising their earlier stated principles on this.