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Given the habits of the Chinese government, do you think Chinese software and information services will be popular outside of China?

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I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious. NSA's Prism gives the US Gov't free reign over troves of information held by US based software and information services companies.

I didn't set up any kind of false choice. It's possible that Western Europe, for instance, decides to stay away from both.

> I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious

It's not at all. We can still criticize the US government for their actions.

You actually couldn't do that in China.

They do not need to be popular. They can just buy shares or even fusion with their EU/US counterparts.

The problem is we are too damn stupid to realize that we cant allow chinese protectionism anymore

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