The difference is that China has a Great Firewall and now a "Great Cannon". China has demonstrated that they are willing to use it to weaponize Baidu against g

The difference is that China has a Great Firewall and now a "Great Cannon". China has demonstrated that they are willing to use it to weaponize Baidu against github merely for hosting content China don't like. Now that this is known and demonstrated, anyone outside China that uses Baidu's analytics or ad product would be behaving irresponsibly. Basically, you can't trust any traffic going through the great firewall, so you absolutely should not link to a Javascript hosted within China as a non-China-based business. Within China, China can weaponize Baidu, Google, or anything else they choose. That's the nature of their internet connectivity and their ownership of CNNIC, which recently issued certificates that can be used to impersonate Google, Facebook, etc.