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Money. Australia is heavily influenced by Chinese policy, look at their stance on privacy / encryption / etc. Eventually this will percolate to the rest of the world. It will take decades but I’m sure it will happen. Younger generations are already pro censorship.

Chinas influence is strong enough to cause the AU PM to say stupid things: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170714/10385237789/aussi...

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It's a real stretch to claim that the Aus govt's anti-encryption agenda originated in China.

Especially since any penetration of encryption within Australia would likely be turned against foreign agents (including the Chinese).

Also AFAIK we're still stuck in an unequal trade war with the PRC so they're not exactly flavour of the month around here.

The next big destination many people have with respect to internet penetration is Africa. And CCP is ahead of west in capturing African market by working best with dictators and being competitive. For example they sold their telecom towers very cheap, and they work best with only chinese phones. With this cycle, china owns major share of African mobile business in just a few years. It would be easier to to get their IP in there.

>"And CCP is ahead of west in capturing African market by working best with dictators and being competitive"

I guess the West should improve their track record on "working best with dictators".

Dictators aside, the Chinese are considered fairer trading partners than most (possibly all) western countries. ~1000 years of African history makes this point very clear.

Certain lessons need to be re-learned the hard way.

>Chinas influence is strong enough to cause the AU PM to say stupid things:

The PM is basically mirroring the position of the Five Eyes alliance of which Australia has been a member for longer than Communist China has existed.

That statement of AU PM is definitely worthy of retard. But why do you think it is caused by Chinese influence? From what I understand being able to have "master key" is a wet dream of every government without exception even if said government wants to have nothing to do with China.

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