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Not surprising. And I doubt other country can do the same. Several factors makes China a unique case: 1. Massive domestic market, China along can have its own i
by eva1984 10y ago
Not surprising. And I doubt other country can do the same. Several factors makes China a unique case:
1. Massive domestic market, China along can have its own internet ecosystem, which is the fundamental reason why GFW can endure.
2.Conformist culture due to its Confucian tradition
3.Communist government has firm grasp of its power and stay vigilant to any sign or power that acts against it.
- usrusr 10y ago#1 trumps everything else. Try doing the same in a market the size of a typical European nation and you end up with an embarrassing digital backwater. Do it in a market the size of China and you can trail silicon valley by a few years at most, constantly gaining relative competitiveness as the global market of "online stuff" slows from wild, exiting exploration to establishment. I suspect that #2 and #3 are far behind what I would put on #2, plain old language barrier, but I am surely no China expert.