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To protect local competitors (and local control)?

> Do they even operate in china?

If they were going to, they won't now.

They don't operate in China but I'm pretty sure they have received funding from chinese investors.

blocking is not always that fine-grained; there are tons of IPs/domains blocked that have nothing to do with China

probably a tit-for-tat against India banning a lot of Chinese services back in 2020