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by Canada 3257 days ago
The environment is not the same as China, both in terms of the infrastructure and people's expectations and mentalities.

Tencent is what it is because competition is banned. China's "internet" is more like AOL from the early 90s, with network performance from the early 2000s at best. Nobody is going to be able to move in WeChat's direction because other governments aren't willing to erect massive censorship infrastructure to kill competition.