China does indeed have the concept of private property, to the extent that China de facto recognizes the rule of law (which admittedly isn't that much): https:

China does indeed have the concept of private property, to the extent that China de facto recognizes the rule of law (which admittedly isn't that much): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_Law_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_Law_of_the_People's_R... It's not accurate to say China is "still a communist country." It could be more closely defined as a capitalist one-party state. That one party is the CCP, and they still revere Mao, but it's an open secret that they have embraced capitalism under a veneer of socialist populism. That being said, it's not wrong to say that information in the hands of a Chinese company is a trivial step away from being information in the hands of the Chinese state.