This is a fairly devastating passage: "And money talks. When Xi visited Seattle in 2015, America’s technology giants allowed themselves to be summoned The bos

This is a fairly devastating passage: "And money talks. When Xi visited Seattle in 2015, America’s technology giants allowed themselves to be summoned The bosses of Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and Amazon all stood alongside Xi in the front row of a group photograph. All have since embarked on multiple partnerships with China despite its commitment to perfecting internet censorship. Also prominent in that photo was Mark Zuckerberg, but despite a charm offensive which included inviting the Chinese Communist leader to suggest a name for his baby, and praising Xi’s book on governance, Facebook is still barred from China. Google’s founders were not even invited to be in Xi’s photo. Xi has ambitious plans for control of the internet and that means leverage over foreign companies. Facebook’s messaging tool Whatsapp is increasingly blocked in China and Apple has now removed from its China App Store the VPNs which once gave Chinese users access to social media tools in the West, including the YouTube channel which gave the gleeful Guo Wengui such a devastating platform to discredit Xi’s rule. To fully control China’s cyberspace, Xi has had to take action against the world’s."