spicy take regarding chinas firewall:
by forcing citizens to use their own countries apps(baidu instead of google, weibo instead of Amazon, wechat instead of like everything), they’ve prevented the export of value/money/data to other countries, and instead kept it for its own citizens.

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the trade off essentially is freedom vs money
now is the firewall net positive or net negative for Chinese people? now that’s an interesting debate question we can explore on @unlonely

What explains the purchasing of real estate in other countries from the affluent Chinese then?