Plenty of countries don't have the First Amendment that are still liberal democracies that adhere to more or less free trade principles. The PRC does it because

Plenty of countries don't have the First Amendment that are still liberal democracies that adhere to more or less free trade principles. The PRC does it because they are totalitarian State subject to the control of the Communist Party of China and their censorship regime does not stop at the border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_censorship_abroad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_censorship_abroad