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by mankash666 3011 days ago
This is completely fair. For anyone unawares of the obstacles purposefully enacted by the Chinese government, below is a non-comprehensive list:

1. Excessive tariffs on companies domiciled outisde China

2. Demanding IP transfer to China as a precondition to evening the playing filed

3. Demanding access to any and all data used by a corp., regardless of privacy of the users

4. Backing domestic companies with unlimited, unfair lines of credit

5 ....

It's NOT a co-incidence that Facebook, Apple, Google, ... that dominate tech pretty much everywhere else lack a significant presence in China.

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> It's NOT a co-incidence that Facebook, Apple, Google, ... that dominate tech pretty much everywhere else lack a significant presence in China.

AWS is there, but they actually don't operate it (and the offering pales in comparison with all of their other regions)