Thanks for the laugh, that was great. Seriously though, the tendrils of Chinese money run deep and wide to extents I'm sure most people simply can't realize.

Thanks for the laugh, that was great. Seriously though, the tendrils of Chinese money run deep and wide to extents I'm sure most people simply can't realize. To demonstrate China's influence on video games around the world: Epic Games (USA), Ubisoft (USA), Riot Games (USA), Paradox Interactive (Sweden), Kadokawa (Japan), Marvelous (Japan), FromSoftware (Japan), Visual Arts Key (Japan), Netmarble (South Korea), Frontier Developments (UK), Digital Extremes (Canada), Roblox (USA), and Discord (USA) all have Chinese money in them through Tencent.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_studio_assets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_studio_assets And that is just Tencent in just video games (and Discord). I've not even gotten into all the other Chinese game development outfits yet, let alone other markets entirely like Tiktok and Temu as another commenter pointed out. Also, that list of Tencent influence was absolutely depressing to type out.