If you were running the largest network of communications in any country you would also have a political requirement to maintain a public hat-tip to government

If you were running the largest network of communications in any country you would also have a political requirement to maintain a public hat-tip to government at all times as well as private cooperation. While the brusque visual nature of this sculpture is admittedly unnerving, I can assure you based on nearly 20 years in the country that it is not some sort of oppressive symbolism but rather more likely a PR designed retro-communique to traditional party socialist mores in order to stave off criticism from party hardliners. Government interface is simply the nature of society and a requirement of big business everywhere. The US included.