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Maybe the Chinese government wouldn't, but the people would care, a lot. The Chinese government is perpetually afraid of revolution and rebellion.

• klingonopera 7y ago
  Do mainland Chinese really use that much of the global Internet?
  • throwaway1997 7y ago
    Yes, an enormous amount of data crosses the border from HK into China
  • anigbrowl 7y ago
    Foreign trade is ~37% of China's GDP so probably at least 1/3 of the country depends on it directly or indirectly. For context that's equivalent to the entire population of the US even if only a small fraction of those people are conducting the actual communications, negotiations, and transactions of international commerce.