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I assume he's actually trolling us.

Canada is a great choice. Singapore or Hong Kong would be ok. Various Eastern European countries, or Ireland, or Australia or New Zealand -- all great.

The only reason I would put a small business in China is a manufacturing business, or a services business focused ON CHINA. A services business focused outside China based in China is utterly insane. You have the language issue, the undeveloped legal system and business support system, the high cost of top-tier expats, and all sorts of political risk.

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There's also the "can I connect to this outside Internet service today?" risk.

As I recall, people said companies can generally VPN out, but that adds to your costs (paying the external VPN site, plus latency, another single point of failure, etc.).