> Protectionism is a valid strategy to help boost domestic economic development and it's fairly arrogant and imperialistic to assert that we as fully developed

> Protectionism is a valid strategy to help boost domestic economic development and it's fairly arrogant and imperialistic to assert that we as fully developed foreigners have any right to exploit markets in less developed areas. I agree with the majority of your point, as I think we can all agree that without the GFC Chinese internet users would instead be revenue chum for Google / FB / Uber / Apple. I can't argue that their instead having home-grown alternatives isn't beneficial to China as a country. However, I think it becomes debatable when you look at best for Chinese users. I'd argue that the optimal privacy situation for any user tends to be an app built by a large company headquartered and infrastructured outside the user's legal jurisdiction. Without strong extra-jurisdictional competition, internal competitors are all subject to the whims and designs of national government. As a American, I'm grateful the EU (for example) raised such a strong fuss about privacy concerns -- without which, I doubt we'd have some mostly-internal American companies making the same positive moves we do see.