China has only copied the US. Consider: it bans all the social media and other internet companies, Facebook, Google, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter, etc. and instead has its home-grown versions, most of them worse than the American one. And I can’t think of anything that they actually invented.
Here’s a list of some of the equivalences, and my own judgements after using them:
- Facebook: not allowed in China, which has WeChat instead. Not as good
- Google: not allowed in China, which has Baidu instead. Not as good.
- Twitter: not allowed in China, which has Weibo instead. Not as good.
- YouTube: not allowed in China, which has Youku instead. Not as good.
- Uber: not allowed in China, which has DiDi Chuxing instead. Nearly as good.
And now they’re going to limit how AI can grow! AI, which is to be the Next Big Thing. Except not in China. Where it has to be seemly. “Healthy”. Socialist. So it seems.
Whenever we have people start talking about how China is going to take over the world in this or that, we have to remember that it remains Marxist-Leninist and M-L states don't fare well. The extent to which China has succeeded in the last 40 years, is directly proportional to the extent to which it ignored Marxist-Leninism. But Xi’s a Marxist. And he regularly reminds the country of that. And that’s we see here in the new regulations. A reminder of the deadening hand of socialism.
