The Chinese great firewall, even though it is primarily to not allow info flow from outside, one benefit has been that, a lot of the internet companies that ope

The Chinese great firewall, even though it is primarily to not allow info flow from outside, one benefit has been that, a lot of the internet companies that operate in china have been local and they were able to develop without any competition from western players. This has benefited china and its companies. But in the rest of the world its mostly the SV companies who rule the roost. There are bith advantages and disadvantages to protectionism I feel.