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Simply due to their firewall...

• onion2k 10y ago
  That's may well be a factor, but there are many examples of countries without firewalls and censorship etc that are equally 'unamericanised', so it's unlikely to be the only factor.
• Ping938 10y ago
  And culture! Chinese culture is different than Western one. Chinese companies understood the particular demands of the market in the early ’00s, when Internet access was still scanty. Ten years ago, for example, eBay tried to dominate in China but failed, partly because many small businesses—the places that might otherwise have used eBay to sell their products to the world—didn’t yet have computers or a connection to the Internet. At Alibaba, however, founder Jack Ma understood this, so he assembled a huge sales force that fanned out across the country, teaching merchants how to get wired. (He also outcompeted eBay’s PayPal with Alipay, which holds a buyer’s payment in escrow until they receive their goods and pronounce themselves happy with the purchase; this helped build trust in online markets.)By catering specifically to the needs of Chinese youth and focusing on social games, Tencent QQ beat out Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger service. Zhenai.com, although similar to services like Match.com, offers counseling and debriefings to its customers, which fits well with the indirect manner of affection display in Asian culture.