It is not entirely true. The GFW did offer protect to the local companies from the western giants at the very beginning. But this is just a side-effect.I don't

It is not entirely true. The GFW did offer protect to the local companies from the western giants at the very beginning. But this is just a side-effect.I don't think that is because the CCP government prefers to sponsor the home-grown ones. No, one thousand time No. It hates internet as a whole.It tries, a lot of times, throwing a huge money to put its own players on the market, but mainly in the search engine space, like Remin, Jike, Pangu and the most recent, ChinaSo. Only after all these attempts turn out to be failures, it looks back and try to corporate with the private companies. As a native Chinese, I think Wechat is a much better choice than Facebook, in a lot of ways. Imagine what would happen, when Facebook put their Facebook app, Whatsapp and Instagram together, plus gaming, mobile payment and other bunches of stuff. That is what WeChat is right now. And it is used by hundreds of millions of people. And that is impressive.