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Whe you consider China's restrictions against US companies, these things are a drop in a bucket.

A lot gets buried in the privacy discussions but the unfair trade practices are also a problem.

For example Western app makers don't have access to Chinese consumers the same way Chinese app makers have access to Western consumers.

Even companies as large as Uber got strong armed in china. From having traffic shut off completely inside the country without warning (no net neutrality laws) to having to setup an entirely new business in china that didn’t touch the US one.

I have little sympathy and i hope that the Us continues to push restrictions on china tech.

Uber probably isn't the best example given that the company prided itself in being 'fucking illegal', but your point generally stands.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/uber-investigation-...

What does that have to do with the example?

It’s the only one i can speak directly to although i know of numerous other examples.

App needs to meet the standards of local laws, its not like China is just targeting American apps. The US has laws bases on color tone lol

Your point being? Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Iran and Saudi Arabia had/have laws too...

> The US has laws bases on color tone lol

Any actual examples? lol

What would you say is the best example? I'm aware China does aggressively censor US media type products that don't toe the Chinese worldview, but I'm less familiar with absolute bans of major companies of this sort.

I may be misreading the situation here, but to me this seems like a rather extreme escalation that would be analogous to China banning e.g. Apple or Google based/created devices after questioning them over their relationship with the NSA [1] and being [predictably] dissatisfied with their responses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

China will happily ban any company that doesn't give them a backdoor to the version of the product that their citizens use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China

For the longest time companies could simply not operate in China at all other than through some majority Chinese joint-venture.

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