Chinese tech is miles ahead of Western counterparts and protectionism is likely unnecessary, I agree. But won’t Western companies’ noncompliance with Chinese data storage laws prevent mainstream social media like Facebook from being allowed nationwide? Off the top of my head, I believe that one of the reasons Facebook was banned (besides protectionism) was that they refused to store data of Chinese users within Chinese borders or something, meaning that accessing it with a VPN was fine but not through direct Internet connection.
Chinese tech is miles ahead of Western counterparts and protectionism is likely unnecessary, I agree. But won’t Western companies’ noncompliance with Chinese data storage laws prevent mainstream social media like Facebook from being allowed nationwide? Off the top of my head, I believe that one of the reasons Facebook was banned (besides protectionism) was that they refused to store data of Chinese users within Chinese borders or something, meaning that accessing it with a VPN was fine but not through direct Internet connection.
I would imagine China is going to apply same rules to foreign media that they apply to domestic media.