Is China teaching the world to censor?

In recent years, economic and political ties have blossomed between Brazil and China. China has replaced the US as Brazil's largest trading partner. Both countries have leaders who see the US as hegemon to be contained and are suspicious or US foreign policy intentions. According to a recent WSJ article citing Human Rights Watch, in international forums, China and Brazil have both undermined attempts to sanctions human rights abusers, arguing that this infringes national sovereignty. President Lula of Brazil is friendly with Fidel Castro, and has defended the Cuban leader's imprisonment of dissidents.
Now a new report from Google shows that Brazil leads the world in government censorship demands, and yesterday China's Communist Party propaganda newspaper the China Daily featured this in another barely disguised attack on Google, which it says has broken it's promise to censor search results in China.
When censuring Google's Orkut, the Brazilian courts have also noted the example of Google's censorship in China, saying in effect: "Google will censor for China, why won't it censor for us?" .
Nobody is saying that the media takes its orders from the government in Brazil as it does in China. But China's influence on Brazil, indeed on the world, is worrying.