I'm guessing you're just a year too young to remember Google having to pull out of China (and various similar US website forced out of China disasters about the

I'm guessing you're just a year too young to remember Google having to pull out of China (and various similar US website forced out of China disasters about the same time) that the CCP pulled to give their home growns the big edge. Claiming the domestic market is better because the CCP basically forced all the competition out by quite publicly asking them all to spy on the chinese citizens, politically unfeasible at the time for the US companies, is not that they 'are not competitive enough'. It's Chinese protectionism and desire for central control. I honestly feel like you're trying to rewrite what is very well documented history and very recent history at that. It was widely discussed here at the time. https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/new-approach-to-ch... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450030