> (and we let them win) That's indeed the key point. While the Chinese government can censor whatever it pleases and enforce any policies on its citizens, it's

> (and we let them win) That's indeed the key point. While the Chinese government can censor whatever it pleases and enforce any policies on its citizens, it's up to US corporations to decide whether they want to keep in line with them. For what it's worth, corporations will be gradually replacing public institutions and governments in a few decades from now (at most in a century). Not by coups, but by making them largely irrelevant in everyday life. Democracy will then be as archaic as monarchies.