What? This was never the case. Especially china. The internet was born from a Department of Defense project (ARPANET). The british, french, etc governments wer

What? This was never the case. Especially china. The internet was born from a Department of Defense project (ARPANET). The british, french, etc governments were also early internet players. Every major power understood the internet. It's why china in the 90s/00s decided to create their own internet companies. It's why we have alibaba, baidu, tencent, etc. The same thing with russia. The same thing with south korea and japan.